When Starting Your Small Business, Use TimeWorksPlus To Keep Costs Low
TimeWorksPlus, an affordable and user-friendly employee timekeeping system by Swipeclock, helps new small business owners reduce overhead by lowering administrative payroll costs, minimizing costly payroll errors, and preventing widespread employee time theft such as buddy punching and time card padding.
Today's message focuses on workforce planning, specifically the financial rewards for new business owners who use TimeWorksPlus.
TimeWorksPlus is an affordable, easy-to-use employee timekeeping system from Swipeclock. In addition to helping you efficiently manage employees, it helps you lower the biggest costs when starting your small business.
Here are three important ways TimeWorksPlus lowers overhead for startups:
1. TimeWorksPlus Keeps Admin Costs Low
With pen and paper employee timekeeping, you have to fix problems every pay period. This costs you time and money if you process payroll yourself, and even more when you are paying a payroll manager.
With TimeWorksPlus, one person can prepare payroll for a relatively large staff. Some businesses have one payroll manager for 75+ associates using TimeWorksPlus.
When starting out, you can handle payroll yourself if you have TimeWorksPlus for timekeeping. When you can afford an HR director or payroll manager, they can handle payroll for a growing labor force.
You will also save on wages and benefits for your HR team. They won’t have to enter payroll data in spreadsheets, saving them from that inefficient chore.
2. TimeWorksPlus Reduces Costly Payroll Mistakes
Timekeeping software increases payroll accuracy. Payroll mistakes are costly—you have to find the problem, correct it in the system, and issue a new check. Payroll mistakes also lower your reputation. Repeated mistakes reduce staff loyalty, which increases turnover and costs you even more.
3. TimeWorksPlus Prevents Employee Time Theft
Multiple studies have confirmed that employee time fraud is a widespread workplace problem. In a Kessler International survey of over 500 workers, 95 percent admitted to dishonesty. Hours theft by buddy punching and time card padding were two methods. Retail and field service businesses are especially vulnerable to time theft.
Buddy clocking, padding time cards, and early punch-ins and late punch-outs result in an average of 4.5 unauthorized hours per week, per employee. For an employee paid $15 per hour, this amounts to an extra $67.50 per week. Compare that to the low cost of TimeWorksPlus.
The ultimate protection is to pair TimeWorksPlus with a biometric time clock. A biometric time clock is a smart investment that delivers ROI every day, and it’s easier to begin using one with your first team member than bringing one in later.
Swipeclock offers WorkforceHub, a Human Resources Management System (HRMS) that makes it easy to optimize the performance of your managers, employees, and company workflows. WorkforceHub includes TimeWorksPlus, TimeSimplicity, TimeWorks Mobile, and ApplicantStack. Features include hiring, onboarding, benefits enrollment, performance reviews, and employee engagement. WorkforceHub was created for busy employers who need to reduce cost-per-hire, streamline scheduling, automate time tracking, maintain regulatory compliance, and shrink labor costs.
You can get up and running with WorkforceHub immediately. Contact Swipeclock to request a demo or learn more about becoming a reseller.
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