Time and Labor Management
Comprehensive time management tools to track and manage your workforce
Why manage time and labor with Paycom?
Because you can track time in no time.
With Paycom’s time and labor management tools, tracking and managing your workforce is fast, easy and, best of all, precise. Our comprehensive timekeeping software helps you capture employees’ hours worked, optimize scheduling, track labor dollars, automate time-off request approvals and more.
Time flows through a single software
When employees enter their time, it flows throughout our single database with no data reentry required. This gives you a complete, accurate picture of your team’s work.
Time-off decisions decided
Take the time (and hassle) out of managing time-off requests by automating decision-making with GONE®. No more denial disputes, understaffing or eroded employee trust.
Precise to the second
We offer a variety of time clocks and terminals to fit your needs. Each was built for accuracy, security, flexibility and control for easy approvals and automatic flow to payroll.
Stay ahead of scheduling
Keep business moving with flexible software that automates team schedules. It’s easy to set up and customize. And it gives employees 24/7 access to manage their shifts.
Automate like clockwork
Along with an automatic flow of employees’ hours to payroll, Paycom helps you stay on top of employee time by automating clock-in reminders, manager notifications, pay period archives and more.
An HR and payroll provider you can trust
Features and benefits
See what’s possible with Paycom
Staffing peace of mind
Paycom’s single software automates time-consuming tasks involving your staffing needs. Now you can stop worrying about being shorthanded and the painful decisions that come with it.
Keep an eye on your labor dollars
Where is all your money going? With Paycom’s full-solution automation, it’s easy to track in real time. By categorizing your labor dollars, you can assess needs and trends, apply tax laws appropriately and pay employees accurately.
Protection that’s always on the clock
As employees clock in and out, make sure their hours are captured accurately and efficiently. Our precision tools help prevent time theft and unauthorized punches with IP filtering and geofencing options.
Proven results
New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ of Paycom’s Time-Off Requests Featuring GONE
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Paycom reveals how our automated time-off tech simplified an unmanaged process, boosted the employee experience and generated a projected ROI of up to 821%.
Nearly 200 hours
saved by HR, finance and admins annually
Nearly a workweek*
saved by every manager annually
240 overtime hours
avoided from consistent staffing annually
*Refers to up to 30 hours out of a traditional 40-hour workweek.
A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Paycom (October 2024). Results are for a composite organization based on interviewed clients with a three-year projected ROI of 102%-821% and include annual savings of up to 192 hours for HR, finance and admin teams.
See what people are saying about Paycom
Case study
How an Agricultural Cooperative Reduced Timecard Irregularities by 88%
Using outdated systems to manage employees’ time proved anything but fruitful for this Wisconsin-based business. See how Paycom’s timekeeping tools helped it raise a fresh crop of efficiency.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn more about time and labor management
Time and labor management is an umbrella term covering all the processes that help managers prepare, oversee and analyze the time their workforce spends working, as well as the wages associated with that work. Functions that fall under time and labor management can include real-time tracking of labor, allocating wages, scheduling, managing time-off requests and more.
At the heart of nearly every time and labor management strategy is the belief that time and labor are valuable resources that should be maximized. That includes the time spent by the people who manage these resources.
When software streamlines processes that include scheduling, time and attendance and PTO requests, the results of that efficiency can be felt throughout the organization. These systems can also provide real-time data that allows leadership to make labor allocation decisions that move the organization closer to its strategic goals.
Thanks to Paycom’s single software, time and labor data flows seamlessly throughout our easy app, providing accurate, real-time information. For example, when an employee clocks in or out for managers to approve, that data then informs scheduling, payroll and even the reports managers use to analyze the time and labor metrics driving their organization.
With this simple approach, multiple-platform systems and manual data-entry practices are no longer part of your time and labor process. Gone, too, are the costly errors and compliance risks that come with using less-than-efficient time-tracking tech.
No, but when your labor allocation tool exists in the same database as all other employee data, you don’t have to perform any data reentry or merging between multiple systems. When employees clock in, that data automatically allocates to provide accurate compensation for work performed among locations, roles or more. That time data automatically flows to payroll upon approval, too!
Automation for time-off requests calculates allowances and notifies employees so you don’t have to, thereby decreasing errors. Paycom goes even further by automating the decisions around time-off requests based on what you set to:
- give employees instant responses
- free supervisors from time-consuming reviews
- save HR pros from being constant mediators
- protect executive leadership from understaffing and noncompliance
You can read more benefits in this blog post.
Easily! At the start of each pay period, our employee-first payroll solution, Beti®, automatically identifies errors, then guides employees to fix them before payroll submission. This proactive method of red-flagging potential errors helps keep them from impacting anyone’s check.
In addition, our Labor Allocation tool helps clarify which state tax laws apply to which employees.
Like their in-office counterparts, remote workers can use time and labor management systems to effectively track their schedules and hours worked through web-based terminals and time clocks.
Yes. Our single software monitors legislative changes that would affect overtime state by state and updates our system accordingly to help keep you in compliance, no matter your head count or locations.
Yes. At any time, managers can get an instant view of their direct reports’ timecards, time-off submissions and more. However, Paycom’s software automatically notifies managers of when timecards, punch changes and time-off requests have been submitted and await supervisor approval (unless auto-approved based on client-set rules).
Absolutely! As employees own their own time data and perform key tasks previously middle-manned by HR, our built-in Direct Data Exchange® tool automatically assigns a dollar value of savings achieved. These costs are based on groundbreaking EY research on the total associated costs with performing that task manually, including labor and non-labor. Using those same numbers, the labor analytics software also identifies where further savings can be achieved by eliminating manual and duplicate processes beyond those involving time tracking.