As an employee, you benefit from working time tracking
Since the ruling of the BAG in September 2022, there has been a lot of discussion about the obligation to record working time. The debate is about the reasons behind this decision of the Federal Labour Court (Bundesarbeitsgericht, BAG) and about the benefits companies can draw from it. Unfortunately, employees are often neglected in the process.
Yet they are the real winners of this decision. Time tracking offers employees many benefits and also many new possibilities:
1. Transparency
Because your working time is recorded digitally, every hour worked is captured automatically. That way you always have an overview of the hours you have put in. And your boss also has an overview of how much extra work you are doing.
2. Prevents unpaid overtime
Thanks to the overview of the hours you have put in, you always know when you have reached your quota and from when on you are working overtime. How overtime is handled in your company must in principle be set out in the employment contract or the collective agreement.
3. Maintaining occupational safety
Working time tracking makes sure that the requirements of the German Occupational Safety Act (Arbeitsschutzgesetz) are met. A better overview of the hours you have put in makes it possible to ensure that the rules on overtime and additional work are observed and that rest periods and breaks are actually taken.
4. More flexible work
Time tracking with apps allows you to work more flexibly. Instead of tracking the time you work through your physical presence, apps like clockin give you the option of working from home and still making sure that those hours land correctly in your hours account. Clocking in via the app makes time tracking simple and clear.
5. Digital vacation requests
Digital tools such as clockin do not only offer you the feature of recording your working time. With clockin you can submit vacation requests easily and stress-free via the app. Digital processing makes for faster administration, so you can plan your vacation even more quickly!
6. Upload sick leave notifications online
It is not only vacation requests that can be submitted through the app. You can manage your sick leave notifications there too. You can not only report yourself sick through it, but also attach documents such as the certificate of incapacity for work (Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung). Your manager is notified immediately and the sick leave notification is archived straight away.
7. Reliable calculation of absences and vacation
Plan your year with less stress: how much have you already worked? How much vacation have you already taken? Can you perhaps even take time off in lieu of overtime? Because all this data is recorded and stored automatically, you always know how long your next vacation can be and whether you can get home an hour earlier on Friday.
Making work processes easier with digital time tracking
As you can see: time tracking is not an instrument of control. It is a safeguard. And with the right tools, time tracking does not mean time-consuming bureaucracy either, but the optimisation of inefficient processes – and you are the one who benefits.
Tools like clockin are designed above all to make your daily routine easier and to give you a good, secure feeling while you work.
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