Dan’s manager, Tom, came to Maya’s office. "You can’t write Dan up. He’s the backbone of the floor."
Attendance management is not a math problem. It’s a trust problem disguised as a control problem. The best HR systems don’t track minutes. They track exceptions and patterns . They give managers the freedom to ask, "Is this person delivering value?" before asking, "Were they at their desk at 8:01?" attendance management hr
Lily, on the other hand, was in her first week back after her mother’s cancer diagnosis. She worked until 11 PM from home every night, crushing her KPIs. But every morning, she had to drop her mom at radiation therapy. She was 7 minutes late. Consistently. The system flagged her, but it never asked why . Dan’s manager, Tom, came to Maya’s office
One employee did abuse it. A junior accountant used T (traffic) ten times in a month. Maya pulled his badge swipes. He was actually arriving 45 minutes late and leaving 45 minutes early. It’s a trust problem disguised as a control problem
Tom shrugged. "Rules are rules."
She terminated him. Not for being late. For lying about the code.