Time Theft Calculator

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Use our free, easy-to-use time theft calculator to instantly estimate how much employee time theft could be costing your business.

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What constitutes time theft in the workplace?

Arriving late and leaving early

Employees who arrive late or leave early without accurately recording their hours could be costing your business money.

Taking excessive breaks

Taking longer breaks than allocated without recording the additional time could contribute to time theft.

Personal tasks on company time

Spending paid working hours on unauthorized personal activities, such as online shopping or household chores, could constitute time theft.

Fraudulent time tracking

Deliberately recording hours that haven't been worked or claiming payment for incomplete work could constitute time theft.

Remote work abuse

The infamous mouse wigglers. Keeping their laptop open but themselves very much occupied with other business.

What to do with your time theft calculation

The result of your time theft calculation, despite being expressed as a dollar amount, doesn't represent money that can necessarily be recovered directly from employees.

Instead, it represents the estimated value of working time that your business could regain through effective strategies to reduce time theft.

Whether that's investing in HR software, dedicating management time to monitoring performance or improving company culture through better incentives and benefits, the calculation can help you identify the potential value of improved productivity and take action.

How is time theft calculated?

Our time theft calculator estimates the annual dollar value of working time lost to time theft across your workforce.

First, we divide an employee's hourly wage by 60 to calculate their pay per minute, then multiply this by the estimated number of minutes lost to time theft each day.

We then multiply this figure by the number of affected employees, the number of days they work each week and the number of weeks they work each year.

How to counter time theft in your business

Ensuring that hours clocked reflect hours worked can help boost productivity and reduce unnecessary labour costs. With a few simple people management practices and the right HR tools, you can help minimize time theft in your business: