Margins for work shift reason code adjustments
Specifies the margins or grace periods involved in clocking in / clocking out in the ShopFloor Operator Client.
- Margin before work shift start, where the absence code is not requested
- Margin after work shift start, where the absence code is not requested
- Margin before work shift end, where the absence code is not requested
- Margin after work shift end, where the absence code is not requested
- Margin before work shift start, where the absence code is required
- Margin after work shift start, where the absence code is required
Many companies work with flexible working hours, where the employees can decide within a certain time interval, when they come or go adding or subtracting time to their flex account.
If the working hours are usually from 7 am. to 15 p.m., but the employees have the opportunity to flex, between 6 am and 8 am and 14 and 16 p.m., they do not want to be prompted for an absence code within this interval.
Therefore, it is possible, in the time and attendance setup, to select that the employee will not be prompted for an absence code, if he for instance arrives between 6 am and 8 am, and leaves between 14 and 16 pm. In this case, the value in these fields is set to 60 minutes in the setup if the company defined working hours is 7:00 to 15:00.
The system needs to get information about, whether an employee arrives too late compared to previous work shift start, or arrives too early in relation to the next work shift start.
Conversely, at the end, whether the employee leaves too early, or too late. It is possible to specify this in these fields, as the content herein determines, whether you consider an employee being late or too early or leave too soon or too early. If you always want an employee to enter an absence code, if he arrives or leaves between a work shift end or a work shift start, you have to enter the number of total minutes, covering the period from end to start.
If the working hours end at 15 pm. and start at 7.pm the next day, you have to allocate 16 hours, corresponding to 960 minutes in these two fields.
However, the content in the previous fields prevail this setup, so that there is no absence code required within an hour before the start and after the end.