Do you remember the Flintstones cartoon?  In numerous episodes Fred Flintstone was shown coming or going from his job at the quarry punching in and out of work each time he arrived on the job and each evening when he left work.  Fred used a stone tablet that was “punched” by a dinosaur’s teeth—an ingenious [...]

Have you read Seth Godin’s book, Linchpin?  If not, perhaps you’ve heard of it. As Wikipedia describes it, a linchpin is a fastener used to prevent a wheel or other rotating part from sliding off the axle it is riding on.  Essentially, if you lose the linchpin the wheel falls off of its axle stopping [...]

Does anyone remember what life was like before the Cloud?  Okay, if you’re not quite familiar with what I’m talking about you may think I’m crazy.  However, I’m talking about cloud computing, or web based software applications that provide solutions to you just about any place you can access the Internet. Timekeeping and workforce management solutions [...]

The American Payroll Association (APA) recently put out the October issue of their publication PAYTECH magazine.  This October issue of PAYTECH is their annual feature on time and attendance for businesses.  The idea is to offer best practices about how businesses can leverage time and attendance systems to run more efficiently, save money and increase [...]

As of this morning Galaxy Technologies, Inc. has been acquired by Administaff, Inc., the nation’s leading professional employer organization (PEO), serving as a full service human resources department that provides small and medium-sized businesses with administrative relief, big-company benefits, reduced liabilities and a systematic way to improve productivity.  Existing Galaxy Technologies, Inc. management and staff [...]

Congratulations! You have decided to automate your timekeeping.  Your company has traditionally purchased solutions in the past but you don’t want to add to your IT team’s workload and the new server and its licensing are incredibly expensive.  Popular Softwar-as-a-Service (SaaS) subscriptions eliminate the extra workload and server costs, but you find ongoing SaaS fees [...]

When a company needs to implement new workforce management software solutions to continue to operate efficiently there are typically a few options from which to choose:  on-premise applications that have hefty licensing fees and need to be installed and maintained via company IT resources, or to subscribe to a flexible and easy-to-manage Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution.  [...]