Shift Detect

Is it difficult to plan your Shifts upfront? Shift Detect is here to help!

What is Shift Detect!

Shift detect analyzes employee punch times and detects the shift he has worked on. Shift detect helps calculate late in, early out, overtime and so on based on the punch times.

Setting up Shift Detect:

  • Define Shifts
  • Pick employees for Shift Detect

Setting Up Shift Defect

Setting up Shift Detect is an easy, two step process!

Step 1: Define the Shifts

Define all the shifts under Regular Day Program. Give each shift a name and specify the start/end times.

For eg: If you have three shifts as below, define all of them under the Regular Day Program as three distinct shifts.

  • Morning Shift: 06:00 to 14:00
  • Afternoon Shift: 14:00 to 22:00
  • Night Shift: 22:00 to 06:00
Define Shifts
Pick Employees for Shift Detect

Step 2: Pick employees for Shift Detect

Define Gangs of employees and assign them to shift detect. This flexibility allows a group of employees to be assigned to Shift detect, and another group to be exempted from Shift Detect.

That’s all! Leave the rest to AttendHRM. AttendHRM analyzes punch data from each employee, and allocates him to the appropriate shift and calculates his late in, early out, overtime and so on.

Punching for Shift Detect

Proper IN and OUT punches makes it easy for the software to detect the shift the employee is in.

Shift detect requires employees to punch IN and OUT properly. It’s recommended to use separate time attendance devices for IN and OUT. Set up the IN devices at the entrance and the OUT devices at the exit. If the same door is used as entrance and exit, place the IN and OUT devices on either side of the door.

Proper IN and OUT punches makes it easy for the software to detect the shift the employee is in.

Some devices use buttons to mark IN and OUT. For e.g.: F1 for IN and F2 for OUT. This will also work with shift detect, but not recommended as it is error prone.