Answers to tricky HR questions: Grading performance

From www.hrtechnews.com
Our team of experts fields real-life everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s question: What’s the better way to grade performance — on a numerical scale or the common “meets expectations” method?
Question:
Our performance-appraisal system is based on “doesn’t meet,”  ”meets” [...]

Customer Testimonial - Time and Attendance Software

Here is a great testimonial from one of our many customers:
“SoftTime is intuitive and super easy to use, requiring very little training.  It has eliminated our paper calendars and streamlined our paid time off tracking.  Employees can handle their own paid time off requests and see the amount of paid time off remaining without having [...]

Understanding Biometrics - Can you Afford not to?

More and more companies are having that time management problem that no company wants - buddy punching. What is buddy punching? Simply put, having your buddy clock you in, even when you’re not there. This usually happens when an employee knows they’re running late, so they will give a call to their “buddy”, who then [...]

Feature Spotlight: Exporting from TimeKron into Payroll

TimeKron features a easy-to-use, yet robust exporting system. This allows you to export to most major payroll systems, including PayChex (new!),  QuickBooks, ADP, PeachTree, and CheckMark. You can also create your own export templates to be exported into your own payroll software. Submitted time, un-submited time, and approved time can be exported into these different [...]

Social Networking Sites - Your New HR Recruiting Tool?

From HRTechNews.com
It’s not quite widespread yet, but more companies are starting to use social networking Web pages to recruit employees.
Only 9% of HR pros frequently use those sites to recruit, according to a recent survey by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). That’s up from 2% in 2006.
Also, 56% said they never go to [...]

Introducing: Customer Spotlight

At Software Techniques, customer satisfaction is our #1 priority. We strive to provide excellent service along side our superior products.
We are introducing a new section on our website and blog, “Customer Spotlight”, where we let our customers talk about their business and how their experience has been with our products. He have about 400 [...]

Feature Spotlight - HR’s Office Assistant

The HR Virtual Office Assistant keeps you organized by automatically notifying you of pending events such as employee certifications, training dates, evaluations, work permit expirations, benefit eligibility dates and benefit stop dates.

The HR Virtual Office Assistant will also notify you of missing records such as address information, dates, contact information, I-9 information, as [...]