{"id":6763,"date":"2016-05-27T06:41:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T10:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2022-11-16T02:58:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T07:58:34","slug":"benefits-measuring-employee-time-attendance-biometric-time-clock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.m2sys.com\/blog\/workforce-management\/benefits-measuring-employee-time-attendance-biometric-time-clock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Measuring Employee Time and Attendance with a Biometric Time Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Biometric Time Clocks are a more accurate way to measure employee time and attendance. Source: Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The days are gone when managers kept manual journals of employee time and attendance to calculate hours worked. These antiquated ways of measuring employee time and attendance do not have the ability to efficiently prevent buddy punching<\/strong><\/a> or time theft. Therefore, more companies are looking for a better solution to measure employee working hours and discovering that a biometric time clock offers a more secure alternative to manual timesheets.<\/p>\n

A biometric time and attendance system is the automated method of recognizing an employee based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic. The most common biometric features<\/strong><\/a> used for employee identification are faces, fingerprints, finger veins, palm veins, irises, and voice patterns. When an employee attempts identification by their biological traits, a biometric hardware device compares the new scan to all available templates in order to find an exact match.<\/p>\n

Biometric time clock<\/strong><\/a>s<\/strong> capture and match unique human biological traits to detect a person. Modern time and attendance system using biometrics for identification can be beneficial in a number of ways:<\/p>\n