The Conventional view for justifying your investment in a Computerised Time and Attendance is that you will save time currently spent analysing clock cards. This is true, and not only the time but the boredom from this repetitive task. However, if you re-invest some of the time saved refining your reporting and managing the information given then the real cost saving and justification will come from reducing absenteeism and payroll errors.

Absenteeism – What is the real cost?
According to the CBI

£		Some 175 million working days are lost to ill health
£		There is a £13.4 billion bill to cover salaries of absent staff, overtime and temporary cover. This is an average of £537 per worker
£		It is also estimated that 1 in 6 sick days were caused by skiving cost £1.75 billion
£		The Public Sector Averages 8.9 days costing taxpayers £637 per employee
£		The Private Sector Average 6.5 days costing £466 per employee
£		Yorkshire, Humberside & W Midlands were the worst areas with an average of 7.8 days and London was the lowest at 5.4 days.

Here’s how to reduce your contribution to the national average. The CBI says absence rates are falling as firms find ways to combat it. If you use a computerised systems for monitoring and managing absence then you will have an average of 20% lower absence than those keeping manual records, and hence less drain on your company profit.

Too much handling causes many costly errors!

In a multi shift, multi pay rate environment with various other rules such as grace periods, pre and post shift overtime etc, it has been estimated that errors from manual clock card analysis alone costs a company 0.5 to 1% of its total wage bill. i.e. around £20,000 per year for an employer of 100 people on average rates of pay. Using Unitend to calculate payable hours virtually eradicate this.

Carval’s UNITEND has been developed to alleviate the problems associated with a manual system. This will ensure that your staff is correctly remunerated for the amount of hours they worked.

Improve Your Operating Margins and the Strategic Management Of Your Labour Force

When Time and Attendance Calculations are automated with UNITEND, you will free up time to concentrate on key business issues. The automation and assimilation of the variable data generates key information in bespoke report formats that you control.

UNITEND automatically handles clockings; converting this information into payroll data. This means that your skilled professionals are free from the time consuming manual effort required for this process. It also removes the probability of overpaying / underpaying your staff.

Payroll calculations are in no way straight-forward linear calculations. Your company will have its own unique set of variables to consider e.g.:

		Flexible shift rotas
		Unpaid leave agreements
		Absenteeism
		Lateness and overtime
		Multiple start of the week
		End of the week

UNITEND easily handles this and so much more, and provides you with accurate information needed to make decisions based on exact knowledge of your workforce. Your Personnel and your Time! Make the most of both of these resources by using UNITEND.

Find out how using UNITEND will save hours of staff time, avoid costly mistakes and maintain excellent staff relations, download a copy of our Brochure [here, enter name and other contact details ]

“Carvals’ package brilliantly covers Time & Attendance, Payroll and Human Resources completely. In the four years that we've been with them we've been really pleased and have already recommended them many times......A first class Software supplier.. "

Dave Nibloe, Toyoda Gosei