Glossary of Human Resources Management and Employee Benefit Terms
Employee timekeeping is the process of tracking and recording the hours worked by employees. It involves documenting start and end times, breaks, and any overtime hours to ensure accurate payroll processing and compliance with labor laws. Timekeeping systems can be manual, like paper timesheets, or automated, using time clocks, software applications, or biometric scanners.
Employee timekeeping best practices cover both how you record employee hours and how you create a system that works for everyone. Here are some key areas to focus on:
1. Accurate record keeping
2. Efficient systems:
3. Building trust and transparency:
These are short surveys that can be sent frequently to check what your employees think about an issue quickly. The survey comprises fewer questions (not more than 10) to get the information quickly. These can be administered at regular intervals (monthly/weekly/quarterly).
Having periodic, hour-long meetings for an informal chat with every team member is an excellent way to get a true sense of what’s happening with them. Since it is a safe and private conversation, it helps you get better details about an issue.
eNPS (employee Net Promoter score) is one of the simplest yet effective ways to assess your employee's opinion of your company. It includes one intriguing question that gauges loyalty. An example of eNPS questions include: How likely are you to recommend our company to others? Employees respond to the eNPS survey on a scale of 1-10, where 10 denotes they are ‘highly likely’ to recommend the company and 1 signifies they are ‘highly unlikely’ to recommend it.