DataScope Time & Attendance
Tracking contractors and paying employees is a difficult, expensive and time consuming process, often involving many people and a lot of time. DataScope simplify the whole process, from data collection and verification to data presentation. DataScope provide a software application which focuses on the real time information you need to effectively manage the workforce at any level.

DataScope provides a Time and Attendance solution which is totally flexible, massively scalable. Our solutions are highly versatile and completely Future Proof utilising state of the art data collection technology such as :-

DataScope use the most advanced technology available today, our systems are developed by our in-house software team, and will work in the most rugged industries such as Rail, Construction, and Power. Using technology such as biometric verification provides our clients with the measures to efficiently track the time worked by employees, and automating the process and ensuring that the person clocking in and out is who they should be, where they should be an at what time. DataScope Biometric Readers provide a reliable and accurate means to record employee “punches”. This technology has been deployed extensively in the UK and around the world in a variety of conditions and environments and continues to provide the only proof positive means of tracking your employees.

DataScope Time and Attendance will enable your organisation to manage labour costs, absenteeism, shift planning and budgetary control. Our system can ensures staff are working within the European Working Time Directive.

Benefits of a DataScope T&A Systems

  • Management of Worked Hours
  • Absenteeism
  • Shift Planning
  • Role Calls
  • Heath & Safety
  • Training

The system can generate unlimited number of reports, it can highlight absenteeism and staff work habits. HR and payroll are freed from administrative burdens. DataScope will ensure your solution is configured to provide you with tangible benefits.

Our Time and Attendance software provides a range of features including:-

  • Employee Induction
  • Rostering
  • Abnormal working
  • Differing Pay Agreements,
  • Holiday Planning

DataScope provides a complete reporting suite including, attendance monitoring, safety reports such as Working Time Directive specific reports. Muster point and Fire Roll Call report.

Data Export Facility

DataScope can export data into external payrole systems such as Sage, Pegasus, Ceridian Centrefile, Moorepay, Intex Ernie, ADP, Prolog, and Unipay , providing clients with a unique and innovative Future Proof solution to managing wour workforc and contartors.

Typical Configuration

A typical configuration consists of card or biometric readers positioned at entry/departure point monitors. Operatives clock onto/off at site access / exit. Information is streamed to the central DataScope server providing instant access to data/reports via the Internet.

With DataScope’s unique GPRS DataReader’s these can be positioned virtually anywhere; all we need is a power supply the rest is done remotely.

Plan Around Attendance Requirements

This allows you to plan shifts and shift patterns in respect of skills, budgets and resource levels, which will enable the right people to be in the right place at the right time, thus increasing efficiency and productivity.

You can plan and calendar holidays, which means that the workforce resource to be efficiently managed, reducing the need for overtime and its related costs. Monitor absence, which means that unproductive employees can be easily highlighted and assisted to improve attendance.

Handheld Technology

In addition handheld technology can be used for both data collection and auditing. DataScope’s system can be fully mobile and do not need hard wiring, thus it can move with the demands of an organisation. It can be used for site visitor access for specified period only, which means contractors / visitors are granted access only whilst they require entry.

Reports on employee whereabouts in any emergency, allowing individuals to be located accurately and quickly. The system can also produce muster reports in an emergency. Provides security and protects an organisation's greatest assets TIME.

With DataScope systems, immediate access to safety information provides vital data , especially if hazardous areas are uncontrolled.

Increases Efficiency

Time and attendance systems monitor employee hours, manage their schedules and create detailed reports on individual employees. The systems are designed to increase efficiencies among workers and track their hours from job to job, monitor their breaks as well as eliminate human error throughout the payroll cycle.

Controls Payroll Costs

Time and attendance systems such as DataScope have proven to reduce payroll costs by up to 5% per year. The systems, depending on the number of employees, can pay for themselves in less than one year. With such a high return on investment, companies have been increasingly implementing the systems.

Reduces Inaccuracy

By tracking your employee's actual time on the job, companies can eliminate overpaying by thousands of pounds and recoup additional salaries by lessening the load on the payroll department. DataScope is a proven leader in time and attendance products and service.

Advanced Reports

Companies who install Time & Attendance / Flexitime see a very quick return on investment mainly due to extensive reporting capabilities which facilitate on the spot decision making and give management greater control. DataScope Time & Attendance Flexitime comes with a fast, easy to use and comprehensive reporting tool that disseminates valuable information to your management team and makes them more aware of their workforce.

Unrivalled in its reporting flexibility and functionality, Management has access to an advanced and easy to use reporting tool.

Controlling labour costs

The integral reports built into DataScope allow your organisation to easily identify costs associated with absenteeism, approved / unapproved overtime, questionable sickness absences, rosters, late arrivals etc.
Reports can highlight costs, percentages, patterns, rankings, reasons and trends in absence, overtime, late arrivals, annual leave etc. and come with full graphical reporting capabilities.

  • Assists management in decision making
  • Facilitates manpower planning
  • Enhances cost control
  • Produces easy to read information in graphical format
  • Provides management with greater control
  • Allows information to be easily exported to Word, Excel etc

Giving your management team control

Real time reports can be emailed to management at certain times of the day and when used in conjunction with management policy, DataScope can help with:

  • Absence Management - Supervisors can take control of employee trends and patterns. For example, by running regular reports, a supervisor may discover that a particular individual is always absent on a Monday and Friday and can put steps in place to deal with the issue.
  • Overtime Management - Overall productivity may be down due to excessive overtime. By analysing overtime worked and related costs against reason, age, department etc. and cross referencing overtime worked with absences taken, a supervisor can find those employees who are abusing overtime opportunities.
  • Holiday Management - Supervisors can easily view and approve employee holiday entitlements and accruals. Employees can use the module to request days off in the future, information which then becomes available to supervisors and allows them to accurately schedule workloads.

Reports

DataScope can be used to generate in-depth analysis and reports including:

  • Clock Card Report - highlights employee clock in/out times for every day of the week, number of hours are worked at basic, overtime and time taken due to absence
  • Absence/Lateness Report - highlights total number of absences / lateness for each employee and a total for the department
  • Overtime Report - highlights when an employee worked overtime, what shift/work pattern they were on, how much overtime was worked and the totals for the department
  • Shift Roster Report - highlights, by department, employee manning levels on each shift for manpower planning purposes
  • Holiday Balance Reports - shows planned absences allowing management to organise and balance staffing levels accordingly

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