Irrespective of its size, attendance management of employees is a crucial part of any organization. However, when it comes to micro industries, specifically small and medium enterprises, tracking employee attendance becomes a challenge.

Although it is a challenging task for micro industries, managing employee attendance is essential for every organization.

While every large organization has advanced employee tracking systems in place, the lack of affordable HR software for micro industries has been a major issue for this failure.

Since the CEOs and founders of these micro businesses manage everything right from the beginning till the end, they don’t have the time to manage employees.

Secondly, even though there are some employee tracking software systems, they are not suitable for small and medium enterprises because of certain drawbacks.

How is employee attendance tracked now?

Considering the current situation of employee tracking and management, companies use two methods:

Method 1: Manual registry entry Method 2: Biometric device

In the first method, the HR manager still notes down the entry and exit timings of the employees manually. On the other hand, in the second method, the company uses a biometric device to capture the arrival and departure timings of the employees.

Although both these methods are widely used now, a large portion of companies belonging to the MSME sector still do not adopt these methods for these drawbacks:

1. False entries

When HR managers enter the employee timings manually, it is sure to end up in false entries. Since to err is human, you can expect the HR managers to make mistakes in entering timings.

2. Tedious record-keeping

Since the HR managers note down everything manually, it is extremely time-consuming. Every day, the HR manager will have to note down the timings of every employee separately. Besides, maintaining the compliance and documentation of employees manually comes with a lot of hassle. After some time, the HR managers may lose track of the documents and attendance.

3. High upfront cost of biometric devices

Micro industries and startups have limited capital with which they conduct various business operations. At the initial stage, companies belonging to micro industries find it more important to invest in other business operations rather than buying an expensive device to track employees.

4. Hectic operations

Simply buying a biometric device and installing it is not enough. Knowing how to run it is another bothersome task for micro industries. Considering the kind of tasks that micro industries need to do, they want something simple and easy to use.

5. Short product-life

When using a biometric device, it comes with a shelf-life. Since this is an electronic device, you don’t know when it will start deteriorating. Most of the time, a biometric device suffers from connection issues. This results in inaccuracy and false positives.

Conclusion

Considering the working conditions and requirements of micro industries, we have come up with an affordable HR software for MSMEs – MicroHR.

Being an authentic employee tracking system for MSME, MicroHR is a mobile-only platform for automating HR tasks. In short, MicroHR allows you to manage employee compliance and tracking at your fingertips.

To learn more about the MicroHR app, click here.

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