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Electronic Time Clocks are designed to stamp employee time cards.They are straightforward to use. When the empoyee arrives they PUNCH IN and when they leave they PUNCH OUT.
Modern electronic time clocks offers fast and quiet operation. Typically they can be used either as a time clock or as a document stamp.
Standard features you can expect include automatic day, date and month changes and the ability to maintain correct time in the case of power outages.
Atomic time clocks are an advance on a traditional eclectronic time clock. They use the latest satellite technology so they can connect and synchronize time to the atomic clock. The benefit is that the time clock never needs resetting so there is less work to look after it.
The main disadvantage of a simple electronic time clock compared with biometric time clocks and attendance systems is that they are subject to errors from inaccurate employee time cards and in particular from so-called "buddy punching", where one employeee punches the time clock for another employee.
A handprint system typically verifies employees' identities in less than one second, based on the unique size and shape of their hands. Also a biometric time clock is an efficient system because there are no cards to create, administer, carry - or lose.
Whilst a biometric time clock costs more than a simple electronic time clock, it returns the investment because it eliminates the costs associated with administrating and managing cards and stops buddy punching and time fraud.
Manufactures of electronic time clock include Acroprint, Detex, Lathem and Amano Cincinnati.
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