Can time clocks support employee wellbeing?

The wellbeing of your employees includes caring for their mental, physical, emotional and social health. Supporting them in having good health overall not only helps to protect them but helps you in running a business with a positive workplace culture that benefits from happy, healthy, and productive staff.

From offering incentives such as gym memberships to providing access to an EAP, there’s many methods a business can opt to use to support employee wellbeing.

So, where does time tracking come into this?

Read on to discover how employee time tracking and clocking in systems can support the promotion of employee wellbeing in your workplace.

Employee time tracking and wellbeing

The two don’t necessarily sound like they’d go hand in hand, but businesses and HR experts have certainly found there to be a positive connection between employee wellbeing and time tracking.

Employee time tracking

A method used by many businesses in a wide range of industries. From hospitality to the care sector, business use time tracking and digital clocking in systems to:

• Record the exact working hours of staff

• Manage workplace lateness

• Keep in line with the Working Time Regulations

• Ensure site safety by knowing exactly who is on site and when

By using a clocking in system not only can you see who’s in, when and at what time, your workplace can benefit from a culture that is focused on supporting employee’s wellbeing.

Promoting work-life balance

With a greater understanding of your team’s working hours, you can encourage regular breaks, reduced overtime, and improve time management within your workplace. This way your team feel a greater sense of balance between their home lives and work lives, only working the hours they are required to.  

Reducing employee stress

Spot the signs of overworking instantly with records of how long your staff are spending at work and whether they are taking breaks. Employees can spend less time worrying about ‘watching the clock’ and put their focus into their work during their designated working hours.

Fostering a healthier workplace

By encouraging timekeeping, you’re giving your staff greater ownership over their role, allowing them to take accountability, boosting transparency between managers and team members, and streamlining operations.

Is it time to check in with your employee?

Have you noticed a consistent pattern in a particular employee’s attendance records?

Are they regularly clocking in late to work?

Or perhaps they are clocking out much later than expected.

Sometimes these patterns can indicate more than a surface level issue.

If you have noticed patterns in lateness or an employee spending too much time on their lunch break, it may be time for a one-to-one meeting. Here you can find out the reasons why and offer this team member some support, before jumping straight into a disciplinary procedure.

On the other hand, you may be concerned about the amount of time a member of your team is spending working over their contracted hours. The employee could be silently struggling to manage their workload but have yet been able to approach you about this.

Various clocking in patterns could be a sign that your employee is stressed or overworked. Impacting their wellbeing, quality of work and moods.

Clocking in records, used appropriately, can be an excellent tool to provide some insight into how an employee may be feeling about their role. Providing several areas of discussion for your upcoming one-to-one meetings or performance reviews. Giving you the opportunity to step in and provide some support where needed.

How to get accurate clocking in data

To ensure that your clocking in data is accurate and up to date, the best solution is a digital clocking in system.

These are available in various forms:

• Biometric machines

• Digital punch cards

• Mobile clocking in apps

• Web-based systems

More on the different types of clocking in systems can be found in our article.

Digital clocking in systems will provide real-time data, giving you the most accurate information on the times your employees clock in and out and even when they take their designated breaks.

With minute by minute or even time records by the second, you’ll gain an even clearer picture of who is clocking in when. Helping to check for clocking in patterns and any signs of concern.

Invest in a modern solution with BrightHR

Clocking in apps can do more for you than simply provide time stamps. The exact data they provide can be used to support the productivity and wellbeing of your team. Helping to create a positive workplace culture that focuses on encouraging healthy working patterns.

With Blip, our clocking in app, you can produce time clocking reports to generate an overview of your employees clocking in and out times over different periods of time.

Noticed a pattern of lateness with one staff member? Or concerned that another is not taking a break from work? Step in before they become overworked, stressed and experiencing unhealthy symptoms of overworking.

Book a demo today to discover the many benefits a clocking in app can provide you and your teams.