Is your cleaning workforce missing out on accurate time and attendance?
The UK cleaning industry contributes £58.9billion* to the UK economy every year and continues to grow year on year. The number of people employed in the cleaning, hygiene and waste sector in 2021 was approximately five per cent of the UK workforce.
Since Covid, demand now leans heavily on deep cleans and touch point cleaning, which often will require more targeted resourcing.
According to the British Cleaning Council’s annual report, the number of sector businesses grew to 69,005 in 2021 and the number of employees working in the sector remained static at 1.47 million, according to the latest statistics available. The number of people employed in the cleaning, hygiene and waste sector in 2021 was approximately five per cent of the UK workforce, ensuring that the industry remains one of the top ten biggest industries in the UK.
Keeping track of and managing remote and dispersed teams is high on the agenda for companies who deliver cleaning and hygiene, facilities management, waste management services. The larger the workforce, and wider locations of contracts means staff out in the field need efficient ways of clocking in and out of their shifts. How this information is logged, verified and communicated to the back-office is crucial, as it could be the difference between processing correct payroll information or under-paying employees because of manual input timesheet error.
Ezitracker time and attendance helps cleaning and facilities management companies to:
- Capture the attendance of remote and dispersed workforces
- Provide granular information for the employee (log in/out time, site information).
- Record site information detailing employee who attended, date, shift duration worked, performance against budget
- Generate alerting for proactive management of the workforce, punctuality, leaving site, geofencing
- Provide information against time budget to show business performance per week at a site
- Issue reports to confirm attendance, activity of the workforce
- Engage with the workforce via a messaging manager to leave voice or mobile app messages
- Assign sites/employees to managers so the workforce can see what they require
- Use a Single Portal access for the office and team to review your business.
Going digital with a time and attendance software solution gives operations managers the necessary technology to verify attendance in real time and eliminate the need for paper timesheets - thereby streamlining payroll reporting. The benefits can be realised through massive reductions in the administrative burden of paper timesheets, resulting in substantial savings in payroll processing, including the elimination of timesheet errors, reduction in payroll under/overpayments, discrepancies, disputes, and time spent on supervision.
Time and attendance technology significantly reduces the potential for fraud and time-keeping disputes as finance teams can compare actual hours worked against planned hours, therefore significantly reducing the chance of over-payments.
Implementing an efficient time and attendance system means cleaning contractors can manage the employee lifecycle of hundreds of cleaning operatives in a sector that has a notoriously high staff turnover rate. By eliminating uncertainty and having information available in real-time, it’s possible to free up time for Managers to make the best possible decisions, streamline processes, achieve optimum levels of productivity, and boost long-term profitability.
