subject: The Advanced Employee Tracking System [print this page] Advancements in technology have led to various changes and developments in the work environment and the most remarkable one of those is the employee tracking system. Although employees feel it to be a hindrance in their freedom, it largely helps in the productivity of a company. Physical location is no more bother for an employee to increase his productivity towards company revenue.
Companies give them the liberty to work from home, work during travel; work on a week end or from anywhere and at any possible time. When this is the case, HR department finds it quite tough to maintain the attendance record, productivity contribution, work hours and work rate of every employee. Since this becomes mandatory for every weekly meeting, HR associates break their heads to arrive at a figure for every employee. This led to the new concept of employee tracking system that fully eases the work of the HR team and also invisibly forces the employee to be sincere.
Employee location tracking is special software that works through the mobile phones of every employee. There is a great rise in the companies installing this software to track their employees, which shows the productive result of the software. Business owners really find it useful to track the employees, therefore their big thanks to the smart phone systems. Every time an employee logs in and logs out the server, the time is being automatically recorded on the server, against the respective employee id. Only authorized users can access this software, because such confidential information has to be preserved safe. The employee location tracking software is much accepted by companies involved in direct sales because no other way to know what their salesmen do on field.
A smart phone is electronically linked to a companys central database server or to the time tracker system, already available in place. This software will work with all smart phones. With this software, authorized managers or supervisors can access the entire mobile history of an employee, including the text messages, call history, phone book and everything. The GPS system helps to keep track of the physical location of every employee. Next day when the employee logs in to his/her id, the system starts to record all the activities including the short breaks, lunch break and other important appointments with the potential clients, here or overseas.
Time tracking is a special attribute which is more accurate and records the exact productive time of every employee. Some may think that it is quite costlier and their company might not need it when compared to the data errors that happen in manual calculation, but this is really important. The results are fully accurate and there will be no question of doubt or wrong entry in the record.
The inbuilt GPS feature of the smart phones help to incorporate the current location of the employee to the time-record sheet, which helps in further cross-checking of the productive activities. This advanced employee location tracking system is far better than the traditional system and is more welcomed by all companies.
