Case Study: Kenru Fire

The Challenge?

Paying too much overtime, lots of time searching for employee report information

Case Study Date: 2020/1/20
Client: Kenru Fire Protection

Shift rules applicable to this case study:

  • Fill normal hours to activate overtime hours
  • Rounding on every clocking

Case Study

They had a faulty overtime calculation on their previous Time and Attendance system that let them make the mistake of paying way too much overtime for their employees. We set up their new overtime payment to only come into affect once each employee’s normal hours have been filled, so that there was no way of cheating the Clock system. They had to fill their normal hours in order to get paid overtime.

When looking for report information, they were spending a lot of time searching for all the information for hundreds of employees. It can be very tiring to track every individual employee when you have such a large base of employees. We solved this problem by letting the NAKO Clock system send them automatic reports directly to their email address inboxes at the date and time they wanted that information.

They didn’t have to search for any information!

They are currently using the NAKO Enterprise Software and this has enabled them to benefit from the Wellness Module. Here they can actually predict future employee behaviour based on past history. It’s a colour coded feature that makes it easy to spot trends and patterns in employee work behaviour based on the employee’s data. This is an excellent preventative strategy because it lets managers identify problems before they occur.

For example, if an employee is coming late to work regularly it is reflected as continuous red alerts by their name, where the manager can step in and confront the employee before problems start such as the employee suddenly quitting their job, committing fraud, etc. It is also used as a bonus allocating system, rewarding good employees for their positive workplace behaviour..

They have been so impressed with the NAKO system that they are implementing the NAKO Mobile App soon. This will allow an employee to clock in from their smartphones and is handy when employees are out travelling or not at work when they should clock in.

It even adds a GPS location, showing exactly where the employee was when he/she clocked in. In this way, the employee can’t lie and say there were in one place when they were actually in another place. We promote ethical and honest workplace behaviour; this is simply another way of ensuring that employees act responsibly and in good faith.

Testimonial

Willem, the owner, said that “My overtime payments were tremendously reduced and I'm very happy with the results, it saved us a lot of money.”