How to efficiently calculate employee hours

Calculating employees’ hours is one of the most important tasks for an HR or payroll team. We look at how it can be improved. 

Calculating hours correctly is important to both business and employee

It’s obviously important to record and calculate employees’ hours accurately. As a business, you need to ensure they are working their contracted hours, and to pay them correctly. Employees also want to trust that they are being paid the right amounts. 

There are many variables that you must consider 

It’s not as simple as counting the number of hours. Have you accounted for paid and unpaid breaks? Are you factoring in different types of absence, like holidays, compassionate leave or medical appointments? If staff are working overtime, which pay rate should apply to which hours? 

Inputting this information manually is extremely time consuming and prone to mistakes ranging from typos to incorrect formulae. An unscrupulous employee may even deliberately enter the wrong details if they are trying to cheat the system. 

Take the pain out of payroll 

Once the data has been recorded by your clocking in system, you must transfer it to your payroll software package. Doing this directly helps save time, remove errors and ensure accuracy. 

Kelio’s Paylink interface is fully compatible with more than 160 payroll software packages. It collates each employee’s data, calculates attendances and absences, and transfers it directly to the payroll software for processing. 

Hear directly from customers who have benefitted from our solutions 

Don’t just take our word for it. Check out these case studies from customers who have saved time and money by installing Kelio solutions: 

Free your time with Kelio’s workforce management solutions 

Save time, and improve the accuracy of your time and attendance monitoring, using our reliable solutions. 

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