timestart® incorporates an employee self service app that can streamline your business, empower your workforce and eliminate traditional, time consuming tasks.
The app is called ESS GO and it enables users to make attendance bookings, request leave, check work rotas and view timesheets from their Android or Apple smartphone.
Features:
Leave entitlement and remaining balance…
Users can check their annual leave entitlement, leave requests awaiting approval, declined leave requests of course, their remaining entitlement balance.
Leave requests…
Company rules determine how far in advance a user can make a leave request. Once a leave request has been approved or declined, an email alert is sent to the user informing them of the managers' decision.
Offsite attendance bookings…
For users that work away from the office, ESS GO supports offsite attendance bookings where the user simply clicks a button when they start or stop work. There is a notepad feature for the user to provide more details about the booking and ESS GO also notes the GPS coordinate of each booking which integrates with the phone's mapping feature.
Shift rota…
Users can see which shifts and rest days have been planned over a rolling 31 day period. If a manager updates a user's shift rota, the change is reflected instantly within ESS GO. An email alert is also sent to the user informing them of the change.
Flexi balance…
If your business operates a flexitime policy, users will see their opening flexitime balance, hours worked and closing flexitime balance on their timesheets.
Current and previous timesheets…
Users can see their own timesheets for the current and two previous pay periods. They can see their attendance bookings, basic and approved overtime hours and any core-time infringements.
timeware® Pucks
Attendance bookings at the timeware® Puck…
The timeware® Puck is the perfect low cost attendance point requiring no network or mains power. Each timeware® Puck incorporates a unique NFC tag which allows them to be 'read' by all modern smart phones running the employee self service app, ESS GO from a distance of about 4cm. When an employee holds the phone near to the timeware® Puck, the ESS GO app records the time, date, Puck details and GPS location.
Remember that the timestart® time and attendance software supports any number of timeware® Pucks.
What's next?
If you would like a demonstration of the timeware® Puck, please contact our sales team on +44 (0)1706 659368 and we can organise an on-site or Teams meeting at a time to suit you.
