Why Your Workforce Needs effective Time Tracking for Employee Attendance
What happens when workforce management and Biometric Turnstiles fail?
What happens when real-time reporting fails?
What happens when employee attendance fails?
Discover how a company with 600+ employees faced costly payroll and productivity issues due to unreliable biometric turnstile clocking—and how a cloud-based time and attendance system turned it all around.
The Hidden Costs of Turnstile-Based Clocking
A large manufacturing plant outside Cape Town, with over 600 employees, operated across rotating shifts. To track attendance and control high foot access, this company installed face-based biometric turnstile systems at the main checkpoints.
At first, it seemed like a streamlined solution. But soon, it revealed costly flaws.
Missed clock-ins. This is due to overcrowding.
Delayed shift starts.
Long queues. And worst of all—payroll disputes.
Employees often struggled to clock in correctly, especially during colder mornings when caps, scarfs and hoodies forced the biometric turnstile to became unreliable when seeking out accurate facial biometrics.
Frustrations at the turnstiles grew as the line movement stopped and the bottlenecking grew.
Behind the scenes in the HR office. This started to filter through.
With no real-time oversight, management didn’t know who had arrived on time and who was late, they started to ghost the turnstiles to get to work.
When Time Tracking Breaks Down, So Does the Business
The real biometric turnstile problems began stacking up with knock-ons:
- Payroll inaccuracies led to underpaid or overpaid employees.
- HR teams were swamped with manual timecard corrections.
- Operations faced staffing issues due to misaligned schedules.
- Finance couldn’t get reliable labour cost data.
The correct biomatric turnstiles would provide an accurate time and attendance system.
But the being event driven the problems started here, with the incorrect biometrics being used in a fast footed turnstile, that was unable to cope.
The Solution: A Turnstile capable of scanning in this factory.
Realising the risk, the company upgraded to a modern, cloud-based time and attendance solution. Employees could now clock in using:
- Biometric scanners for fingerprint that is compliant to business needs
- Facial recognition removed at multiple access points; this can be costly to change the hardware
This new system offered real-time biometrics reporting, synced directly with time and attendance, and provided a clear overview of who was on-site—down to the minute.
Results That Mattered
The transformation was immediate: ✅ Entry queues disappeared
✅ Manual corrections dropped by 88%
✅ Payroll became accurate and on time
✅ Labour costs were finally under control
Most importantly, employee trust was restored, and management had the tools they needed to stay compliant and efficient.
Key Takeaway for Business Leaders
If your organisation is still relying on poor turnstile biometric scanners or manual systems to track time, you may be losing money, time, and trust—without even realising it.
A scalable, automated time and attendance system isn’t just about clocking in—it’s about visibility, compliance, payroll accuracy, and operational control.
This all begins with the right biometric scanner.
Ready to Upgrade Your Time and Attendance?
At TimeMaster, we help small, medium, and large businesses:
- Eliminate payroll errors
- Simplify compliance
- Automate attendance tracking
- Get real-time insights into workforce activity
✅ Seamless payroll integration
✅ Cloud-based dashboards
✅ Flexible biometric and mobile clocking options
Contact TimeMaster
📍 Website: www.timemaster.co.za
📧 Email: support@timemaster.co.za
📞 Phone: +27 083 6791311
Let’s talk about how we can transform your biometric workforce management.
