Optimum Time & Attendance Features

Optimum Time & Attendance includes time tracking features that allow accurate employee attendance records, increased productivity, and effective workforce management. The business rule based options provided by the system are imperative when dealing with numerous employees and multiple schedules. Business rules such as, employee schedules, grace periods and over time rules can be defined at the company, organization, and/or employee level.

Streamline Employee Scheduling

Optimum Time & Attendance provides unlimited user-defined schedules that can be assigned to groups or to individual employees. This process enables companies to effectively manage their workforce.

Optimum Time & Attendance scheduling feature allows companies to:

  • Mass assign schedules
  • Define alternating schedules
  • Ensure adequate schedule coverage at all times

Real Time Leave Requests

Employee absenteeism can be very costly to a company if not managed properly. Optimum Time & Attendance offers unlimited attendance history and online viewing of real-time transactions such as clocking events and leave requests. In today’s legal environment, compliancy and reporting are critical to an organization’s success

With the Optimum Time & Attendance leave request feature, companies can:

  • Access employees’ leave hours and attendance history
  • Enable employees to view leave balances and request time off
  • Employee leave display by month

Customizable Policies

There may be differences in policies among various departments and among individual employees within an organization. Optimum Time & Attendance allows user-defined business policies at the company, organization, and/or employee level.

Optimum Time & Attendance allows companies to:

  • Configure policies for date/time, overtime, rounding,and much more based on company, organization, and/or employee
  • Establish grace periods for each transaction type to trigger notification of schedule violations
  • Determine valid transaction types such as clocking for meals, breaks, and transfers

Efficient Electronic Timecards

Optimum Time & Attendance eliminates paper timesheets and other error-prone manual processes which increases payroll efficiency and accuracy.

Optimum Time & Attendance timecard feature allows companies to:

  • Approve timecards daily or at the end of each pay period
  • Display actual and rounded time as well as employees’ scheduled time
  • Create user-defined authorization codes with assigned point values for perfect attendance and disciplinary tracking
  • Accumulate employee hours by Job Number or Job Class

Standard and Customizable Reports

Optimum Time & Attendance provides companies with many standard reports and selection options to meet your managerial, compliance, and strategic planning needs.

Report features in Optimum Time & Attendance include:

  • Ability to generate standard reports to monitor employee data
  • Option to export reports in a variety of formats such an Excel or PDF
  • Available ad-hoc report writer