subject: ATTENDANCE RECORD FORMS FOR ALL SITUATIONS [print this page] Attendance recording is very common in schools, work places and official gatherings. An Attendance Record Formis very important for use in factories, especially those where production takes place in shifts. Workers fill in the time spent at work on a daily basis in these forms and they can be in a manual or electronic format. Most common these days are the electronic types which are designed such that the days of the week and the dates used for the column labels update automatically based on the specified dates.
It is essential that a reliable attendance record form is properly designed to contain all the essential information required for the type of institution e.g. a school, factory, seminar gathering, sales convention etc. In most countries, it is currently a requirement by law that all employers of labor ensure proper documentation of employee attendance, in the interest of all parties. In a work place environment, data from such forms come in handy during month ends when the overtime wages have to be calculated and paid to deserving staff. In schools, these data forms part of the continuous assessment used in rating the students.
As earlier noted, attendance record forms come in different formats, suited to the applicable requirement for the institution, event or organization. It could be in form of weekly attendance form used by industrial employees, designed in a spread sheet format to capture the weekly 5 top 7 day punch-in for all employees. These can be easily printed and is mostly used as the base profile for their monthly payments. In schools, the daily and consolidated monthly attendance forms help the teachers categorize their monthly school report and class attendance profile for their. At sales conventions or other events, it can be used as a means of determining the success of the event, or for payment for services of a third party contractor for meals, transportation and the likes.
Attendance record form templates can be found freely on the internet and modified to suit specific need. They can be developed from scratch by the school or company, and even in some cases, they are embedded in the company's business applications. The good thing here is that such forms can be gotten very easily regardless of its area of usage.
