Employers in the EU now have to record their staff’s working hours systematically!
The court decision
Current legislation:
According to information from trade unions, the German Working Hours Act currently only requires overtime to be registered after the usual eight hours of regular work. Trade unionists have been complaining for a long time that this is actually only possible if the regular working hours are also recorded. (Source: Handelsblatt)
One billion unpaid overtime hours in Germany
In 2017, according to a report in the Bundestag (Federal Parliament), 2127 million overtime hours were accumulated in Germany. However, only half of the extra hours worked have been paid, about one billion hours remained unpaid! That harms both sides.
It’s about time that the affected companies counteract! Efficiency and productivity can be improved by a good management of working time.
Happy workers will stay in the company instead of taking their leave!
- Introduce straightforward ways for work time tracking in your organization (time tracking must go fast!)
- Enable time recording even when your employees are working in the home office or on the go (field service)
- A combination of a desktop application with an app would be ideal
- If time recording systems, e.g. time clocks are already existing, extend them with online and mobile time tracking
- Document the implementation and inform your employees about the benefits!
The fact is that, in the future, detection options have to be created, even in small companies or start-ups.
These should provide not only the recording of attendance times in the company but also offer options for hour recording on the desktop and mobile devices with appropriate synchronization.
With VNCproject and VNCtask, our software stack VNClagoon offers quickly implementable solutions for workload planning and time recording.
Why VNCtask?
- All-in-one solution to manage your task lists and tasks.
- Download and use for free for individual users!
- Time recording (also mobile) and synchronization between your devices
- Delegate tasks and track the progress
- VNCtask can be used on any smartphone or mobile device. You can keep track of your current tasks and add new tasks anytime, anywhere.
- Super secure: the open source backend in combination with highly secure hosting in Switzerland makes VNCtask an extremely secure software for your task management.
- Integrate VNCtask into VNCproject and work as a team in your organization.
- Take advantage of timesheets, workload planning and extensive evaluation of recorded working hours in VNCproject.
For teams we recommend VNCtask Professional, best in combination with VNCproject!
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