Word Count: 451KWD: 2.88Employee Punch ClockAn Employee Punch Clock Is A Mechanical Clock That Is Utilized For Recording The Hours The Employee Worked. This Is Done By Inserting A Heavy-duty Paper Card (more Known As A Time Card) On The Gap Of The Employee Punch Clock. When The Heavy Duty Paper Card Or Time Card Makes Contact With The Small Switch Or Sensor On The Rear Of The Opening Gap Of The Employee Punch Clock, The Mechanical Timepiece Will Then Imprint Information (usually Time And Date) On The Card. The Employee Punch Clock Allows The Timekeeper Of A Company To Keep Count Of The Hours The Worker Worked In Order To Calculate The Wage Of The Worker.The Employee Punch Clock Has Always Been A Reliable Tool For Employers To Accurately Document The Working Hours Of Their Employees. Nowadays, The Technology Of The Employee Punch Clocks Is Constantly Advancing. Most Employee Punch Clocks That Are Utilized These Days Are Now Fully Automated. Employees Would Only Have To Swipe Their Company Identification Cards (most Of Todays Company Identification Cards Either Have Magnetic Strips Or Bar Codes) On The Sensors Of The Employee Punch Clock And A Central Operating Computer Stores All The Data In Their Main System. The Computer System Then Computes The Working Hours Of The Employee, After Which They Are Sent Electronically Or Manually To Another System For Processing Of Payroll, Making The Payroll System More Efficient With Less Error.The First Ever Employee Punch Clock Was Invented And Introduced To The Public In The November Of 1888 By A Jeweler Named William Bundy. The Following Year, Harlow Bundy (William Bundys Brother) Founded The Bundy Manufacturing Company Which Mass Produced The Employee Punch Clocks. The Bundy Manufacturing Company And The Computing Tabulating Recording Company Then Merged In 1911. The Merging Of The Company Would Then Result To The Birth Of The International Business Machines Corporation (or Popularly Known As IBM) A Few Years Afterwards.Employee Punch Clocks Are Usually Found Or Located On The Main Entrance Of A Company. These Time Recording Systems Gradually Evolved That The Payroll Systems Would Have Lesser Errors. However Some Errors Could Not Be Avoided Like For Example The Instances That The Employee Would Forget To Punch In Or Punch Out Before Or After Lunch. Or There Are Instances That The Magnetic Stripe Or The Bar Code Reader Of The System Would Not Work Accurately Or Malfunction.With The Advancements Of Softwares And Enhanced Employee Punch Clocks, The Old Fashioned Punch Clocks Are Slowly Becoming Obsolete. Better And More Efficient Employee Punch Clocks Are Now Available To Make Certain That The Working Hours Of The Employee Are Documented Properly.
