Time & Attendance
Clocking in, rounding, overtime and the gap between the hours you planned and the hours you paid for.
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Handover: the fifteen minutes at the end of every shift that nobody records
The rota says one shift ends at three and the next starts at three. The handover between them is real work, it happens every day, and in most operations it exists in neither shift.
2026-06-245 min read
Scheduled vs actual hours: what the gap is telling you
The difference between the hours you planned and the hours you paid for is the single most useful number in workforce management, and almost nobody looks at it weekly.
2026-05-064 min read
Buddy punching, rounding and the honest fixes for both
Time theft is real, but most of it is not theft. It is a badly designed clock-in process producing predictable behaviour - and the fixes that work are less dramatic than the ones vendors sell.
2026-04-084 min read