HR & Payroll

A refused clock-in is a row carrying where the phone thought it was, how sure it was, and which of eight refusals applied. One combination of those fields — a failure alongside a valid site code — is the first thing HR is shown.

Somebody clocked in on Tuesday and went home without clocking out. The system will not invent an end time for that day — not at midnight, not at the shift end — and that refusal is the most valuable thing about it.

A site can show a code that changes every thirty seconds and can also print one that never changes at all. Both are accepted, both come from the same secret, and knowing which is on your wall decides what a photograph of it is worth.

An employee assigned to four depots needs to be inside the radius of one, not all. Three numbers decide it — a radius you set, a distance the server computes, and an accuracy the phone reports — and only two of them are yours.

Clocking in requires a registered device, and an employee who has not enrolled one is refused with an instruction rather than let through with a warning. The refusal is recorded, and both routes into the clock run the same check in the same order.

HR records which department an employee belongs to. Procurement asks which department a login belongs to. Two columns on two tables — and when HR provisions that employee a login, the department does not travel with it.

Singapore prescribes what a payslip contains, item by item. Two are dates of payment, two are the first and last days of a period, and one is a period that need not be the salary period at all — so we held our payroll against all eleven.

Japan caps overtime with four tests running at once — a monthly limit, an annual one, a rolling average across two to six months, and a count of how many months went over. Only the first can be answered by looking at a month.

South Africa's employment equity regime sets numerical targets by sector and occupational level, and a certificate for government work turns on them. The report asks your HR record for three classifications, and a conventional employee record carries none of them as fields.

A login here can be revoked the moment you decide to. For contractor and fixed-term accounts we can add a scheduled end date, so the revocation lands on the day it was agreed without anyone having to remember months later.

Payroll here is maintained for one market and configurable for every other. Those are not two grades of the same feature — they are different products, and the difference is who is responsible on the day a rate changes.

An employee’s pay package is designed as a dated series — draft, active, superseded, each with a start and an end. In practice every employee has exactly one, created the first time somebody opens the screen and edited in place from then on.