Hourly employee
Workforce Management Glossary
Hourly employee
What are hourly employees?
An hourly employee is a worker who is paid an hourly wage rather than a salary for services performed. This is in contrast to salaried employees who are paid a set wage no matter how many hours they work in any given week.
With hourly employees employers typically require that these workers utilise a time card or timesheet type document in order to record the number of hours worked in order to ensure fair and accurate payment.
Are there benefits to hourly employment?
With hourly employees they know exactly how much they will be paid before going into each shift. This stability is complemented by the fact that hourly employees can also enjoy overtime pay should they be required to stay back and work a few more hours.
For employers having the ability to turn to hourly employees provides an efficient and effective way to quickly scale up or scale down operations when confronted with a range of situations such as seasonal demand and the like.
How can a business keep track of employee attendance?
When utilising hourly employees businesses must find a way to track time and attendance data in order to ensure accurate payroll processes and good rostering practices. With Roubler’s time and attendance software businesses have full visibility over hours worked.
Implementing both biometric facial verification and geo-location data businesses have insight over employee time and attendance. Additionally accrued data automatically synchronises with payroll to simplify and fast track accurate payslips.