Biometrics means employers can prevent workers clocking in for someone else

Workers taking sick days when they shouldn’t are a problem for employers, so they need a reliable method of clocking in and out, which Time and Attendance South East provides. Available are two fully customisable time and attendance systems, which are operated by simple to use smart cards.

Business leaders failed to see the funny side of Coca-Cola’s humorous advertising campaign about ‘taking a sickie’, Lord Digby Jones being the latest to complain. Slogans on a water brand owned by Coca-Cola – which has head and regional offices in Uxbridge and Slough – encouraged workers to take unauthorised days off when not actually sick.

If your organisation wants to virtually cut out cases of an employee clocking in for someone else (who is, say, ‘on a sickie’), then WinTA Enterprise is our flag-ship time and attendance system. It totally controls working rules, job costing and fire roll call, and can be combined with biometric technology.

Biometric methods of identification work by measuring unique human characteristics to establish irrefutable proof of identity. A biometric scanner from Time and Attendance South East works by bouncing electro-magnetic waves, similar to radio waves, off of the live tissue and blood flow underneath a person’s skin in order to build up a picture of the structure and form of the fingerprint. By actually reading below the skin, the chances of an incorrect scan is eliminated, thus it is almost impossible for a worker to clock in on behalf of a mate.