Time and attendance systems can deliver enhanced skills management options

Time and attendance systems could help deliver improved skills management functionality and tackle the issue of skills shortages, a problem employers should take responsibility for, especially in the construction industry.

The GMB, the union for construction workers, claims that employers in the sector should take full responsibility for the skill shortages due to lack of adequate investment in staff and invest a real apprenticeship program will we get back on track in the UK

Phil Whitehurst, GMB National Officer said: “Only when the employers wake up and own up to their failed years of noninvestment, and invest a real apprenticeship program will we get back on track in the UK.

“For years, the construction industry employers have buried their heads in the sand, way before the deepest recession we have experienced in living memory, they have failed to invest in “real apprenticeships” and opting for past government low wage alternatives, with nothing at the end of the tunnel for those employed in such schemes.

Tensor Time and Attendance Systems enable better skills management and performance monitoring

Beside checking attendance and worked times, the Tensor WinTA Time and Attendance suite also includes a dedicated HR module. Tensor Personnel allows you to record a vast amount of personal information about your company staff, including here basic details, course attendance, educational history, language skills, professional institute memberships, skills, etc.

Moreover, WinTA.NET supplies the relevant managers with information on employee’s absences through warning email notifications or via hardcopy reports. After that, the intelligent employee management system would rapidly identify missing employees that are expected to be at work and then informs you via automatic email reporting reports distributed by email.

Tensor’s range of products offer both a high level of reliability and good value for money, which means that companies who do decide to implement our solutions will immediately see the returns, without taking a hit as far as their balances are concerned.

If you’d like to find out more about the range of workforce management and Time and Attendance solutions supplied by Tensor, just contact us or Book a Demo, our representatives will be more than happy to answer any questions or queries you might have.