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Add a new entry to the Daily Log
Updated onArticleThe TimeForge Daily Log is a great way to communicate with employees and other management staff.
The Daily Log consists of 3 different areas:
- A Manager Log, which is only viewable by Managers and Supervisors (if configured).
- A Staff Log, which contains notes from management to staff members.
- An Audit Log, which contains important tracking information from within TimeForge
Adding new daily log entries allows other employees or managers to view the messages, which are sent from management. This article will teach you how.
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The Daily Log: Manager, Staff, and Audit Logs
Updated onArticleThe TimeForge Daily Log is a great tool for anyone in management. It helps keep track of things like daily notes, tasks, and to-do items, all in one easy-to-use place, and makes it easy to communicate those items with your fellow management and staff members. This means less time spent searching through paper notes and more time spent being productive and managing your employees.
Inside the Daily Log, there are three different styles of Logs that each have a unique purpose: the Manager Log, the Staff Log, and the Audit Log. Here is a quick overview of what you can do with each.
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Add or edit Daily Log categories
Updated onArticleThe TimeForge Daily Log is a digital log book designed to work the way that your business works. You'll soon find that keeping track of things like notes and reminders is much more efficient through a digital medium.
The daily log contains three different parts, each useful to your business:
- The Manager Log is a management log book that can only be viewed by managers. Log entries are written and viewed by members of management.
- The Staff Log is a log book that is written by management but is viewable by staff members (employees).
- The Audit Log is an internal log book that records important changes in TimeForge during the normal course of business, such as when new shifts are posted as part of a schedule.
Before you can add any entries to the Manager or Staff logs, you must first create categories. Your entries can only belong to a single category, but you can have as many entries or categories as you'd like.
This article will teach you how to create your first Daily Log category in TimeForge, as well as any additional categories after that.
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Advantages of the Daily Log
Updated onArticleFor many businesses that aren't using TimeForge and don't have access to the Daily Log, keeping track of the daily notes, events, task lists, to-do items, and can be a cumbersome task. Add to that having to keep track of employee attendance and employee schedules, and it's any wonder work actually gets done.
This article explains the disadvantages to using pen-and-paper log books and explains why the TimeForge Daily Log, an online digital log book, is superior in every way.
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Adjust holiday pay for an employee
Updated onArticleThis article will teach you how to manually adjust an employee's pay through the Manage Attendance screen. This is especially useful, for example, if you need to adjust an employee's pay rate based on their eligibility for holiday pay.
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Allow employees to view their timecards
Updated onArticleFirst of all, Yes! Timeforge gives employees the ability to view their own timecards so that the can keep track of their hours each week. This can save the employees time and effort when keeping accurate records of their own hours worked. It can also save managers from having to keep track of attendance in the off-chance that employees think there's a discrepancy on their check. No need to worry, only managers and some supervisors can make changes to attendance records.
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Manage Attendance Overview
Updated onArticleManage Attendance is a new feature that allows you to handle all aspects of your employee's attendance in one centralized location. In Manage Attendance, you can easily view your employees' attendance, compare attendance with scheduled shifts, quickly add or edit shifts, and more.
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Configure and track meal penalties
Updated onArticleWith TimeForge, employers can easily track meal penalties and automatically apply compensation toward an employee's regular hours. This is useful for those employers who do not care to differentiate regular hours and a lunch break.
Alternatively, you can track meal penalties separately from regular hours. Both options are easy to configure. Here's how to set up meal penalties, then how to interpret your attendance report based on your chosen settings.
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Apply a meal penalty to an employee
Updated onArticleAt TimeForge, we understand how important Federal and State Wage and Hour laws are to follow for companies that supply and use a contingent workforce. This affects every aspect of your labor management, from creating employee schedules to accurately tracking employee attendance. Not following or understanding these laws can lead to costly violations that can be easily avoided.
Here's how you can create a meal penalty for an employee's attendance.
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Turn attendance tracking on or off for salaried employees
Updated onArticleTimeForge gives you the ability to copy hours from the schedule in order to show attendance for salaried employees. While making an employee schedule, you may choose to schedule your managers and other salaried employees so that you can keep accurate record of hours worked. However, this may not be ideal for every business, and is an easy option to toggle on and off.
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