More than half of European organisations use time and attendance registration
Results of a survey from SD Worx, leading provider of global payroll and HR services, and Protime, a specialist in time registration and workforce planning.
June 26, 2019
London, 26 June 2019 — More than half (53%) of European organisations use mandatory time and attendance registration for their staff and an additional 19% practise this for just some of their staff. These are the results of a survey from SD Worx, leading provider of global payroll and HR services, and Protime, a specialist in time registration and workforce planning.
Out of the countries surveyed, using mandatory time and attendance (time and attendance) registration is most popular in the UK with 63% of respondents saying that it is expected for all employees. The Netherlands is least likely to use mandatory time and attendance registration (42%) compared to its European counterparts. That country is also the most selective when it comes to implementing tracking, with 23% of Dutch organisations using mandatory time and attendance registration for only some employees. Out of the countries surveyed, France scored the lowest when it came to not implementing registration at all. Overall, time and attendance registration is less often used in companies with less than 50 employees: 60% don’t have time and attendance registration. In companies with more than 50 employees, 92% use time and attendance registration for at least some employees.
Out of the countries surveyed, the most popular reasons for using time and attendance registration are for HR efficiency (40%), financial tasks and monitoring (36%) and workforce capacity planning (35%). Other possible reason include compliance and legal reasons (32%) or because of the demand for flexibility (32%).
Compliance and HR efficiency are more often mentioned in companies with 100 or more employees. In France, Germany, and The Netherlands workforce capacity planning and HR efficiency are more often mentioned than in the other countries. In Belgium, Germany and the UK financial & monitoring is most often the main reason to use time and attendance. In France, compliancy is most often the main reason, while in the Netherlands workforce capacity planning is the main reason.
Interestingly, some organisations just implement time and attendance registration for some of their staff, rather than as a standard practice for all. In situations where it is not mandatory for all employees, it generally depends on the job type of the employee (47%) or job level (25%). In companies where time and attendance registration is not mandatory for all employees, it is more often only for white collars (23%) than only for blue collars (19%).
About the survey
The online survey was answered by 502 senior professionals across Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands and the UK. The survey aimed to measure the usage and attitudes concerning time and attendance registration in companies and the reasons behind these practices.
The sample is representative of the specific local labour markets, with the same composition as to statute ((blue-collar) workers, office workers and civil servants), gender, region, work regime, language, educational degree and organisation size as that of the active labour population in the countries concerned.
About SD Worx
As a leading European provider of payroll and HR solutions, SD Worx guides organisations in managing their existing and their new workforce, with a full-service package in the areas of Staffing, Payroll, Time and Talent. SD Worx delivers the best suited approach for every situation, providing insights, expertise, outsourcing services and technology HR- decision makers need for their organisation and their individuals to thrive. Today, more than 68,000 small and large organisations across the globe place their trust in SD Worx and its nearly 75 years' worth of experience. In 2018, SD Worx achieved a consolidated turnover of EUR 594.4 million with its two entities.
SD Worx Group offers its payroll and HR outsourcing services, software and consultancy services in 92 countries, calculates the salaries of approximately 4.6 million employees and ranks among the top five worldwide. The more than 4,150 employees at SD Worx operate in ten countries: Belgium (HQ), Austria, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK. It is the co-founder of the Payroll Services Alliance, a global strategic network of leading payroll companies that together handle 32 million payroll calculations.
Since 2018, SD Worx Staffing Solutions has been offering flexible and temporary employment, secondment, recruitment and selection, outplacement and career guidance services in Belgium and the Netherlands. SD Worx Staffing Solutions has more than 450 employees and employs an average of 5,500 temps on a daily basis through its more than 3,000 customers.
More info on: www.sdworx.com
About Protime
Protime was founded in 1995 and is market leader in Workforce Management (WFM) and Collaborative solutions. Thanks to a continuous focus on innovation, Protime supplies her solutions in Workforce management to a wide and varied range of clients and markets. Today Protime has over 4,000 installations across Europe. Protime is a Great Place to Work for 6 years in a row now and is a Best Managed Company. Today the company employs over 260 Protimers, with the majority specialized in HR. Protime has offices in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Protime is part of the SD Worx group.