If you're too young to have seen one of my all-time favorite movies - "Breaking Away" - it's about a coming-of-age rivalry between townies and preppies who leave an Indiana boy pondering his future after high school graduation. The scene in which a townie literally "punches" a time clock as a way of telling his boss to shove it is why I bring this movie to your attention.

TempWorks is punching the obsolescence out of manually tracking employee time. It's time to plug this huge sinkhole of back-office expense. We offer a comprehensive set of solutions that puts an end to time-card handling as we know it. Unlike the many, many different time and attendance solutions on the market, we believe ours is the first that truly works without any manual intervention.

Problems with Existing Time Clock and Web Time Systems
Although there are many elegant, highly suitable time-keeping systems on the market, they do not integrate with the staffing company's back-office.

These systems also are expensive: license fees for acquiring these systems; installation fees; set up fees or additional equipment fees; and staff time to set up and coordinate the system with customers. Is it any wonder that most of the national staffing companies offering such services cannot afford to actually implement them?

In addition to expense, there is the issue of data quality. If you've been in staffing for long, you know that customers are very sensitive to billing mistakes, errors in job codes, cost-center codes and the like, which can cost a capable agency a good contract. When data is maintained in two or more different places - which is the case with external web time systems - it is exposed to the possibility that one set of data will be updated/corrected and not another.

Finally, if you are tracking time on a system other than your live back office, you're playing a waiting game. You wait until you get data to generate an invoice. You wait to get your sales and profit reports. Worst of all, your customer waits to get complete and accurate billing information. All of these things add up to lost profits, poor customer service and ineffective decisions.

Beating Those Problems With 100% Integration
Integration lies at the heart of overcoming all of these problems. In addition to providing a fully integrated front and back office, our time-management solutions provide the integration necessary to keep costs down, maintain security, assure data quality and increase speed.

The two cornerstones of our solution are our integrated web timekeeping and the paperless timecard system.

If you are familiar with our WebCenter, then you already know that we make it a snap for employees and customers to access the data they need. WebCenter is a live, fully integrated tool that helps you make decisions and eliminates the complications associated with web sites that are not integrated with your database. Unlike most web time products, ours offers a fully featured time entry system. No bridging. No guessing. Immediate availability of data for everything from customer reports to invoice generation.

Despite its advantages, we know there are many situations where web time is not the answer. For that, we offer our Paperless Timecard System. The system digitizes the time-card image and eliminates the manual labor associated with its handling, yet allows most of the external people involved to continue working as they always have. Perhaps best of all, the timecards automatically print with the invoices and that saves sorting, storage and retrieval costs. Today we have both a national healthcare company and a large daily pay player using the timecard system as their exclusive method of acquiring time data.

Breaking Away
Technical solutions like the ones I am describing are no longer toys that marginally improve back-office processes. As a solid ROI stepping stone, they pack a tremendous punch for breaking away from the pack, positively impacting your client relationships.

Gregg Dourgarian, CEO