Tips to Increase User Adoption of Face Recognition Biometric Attendance System

The use of biometrics attendance system as a way to track employee attendance has become ubiquitous in virtually every industry across the world. Biometric technology was introduced as a way to avoid buddy punching, when employees punch in for each other due to tardiness or absence, but it soon replaced all time and attendance swipe card machines.

Not all biometric systems are created equal. There are different biometric modalities available, and face recognition is one of them. Facial recognition systems are one of the unique forms of biometric identity verification. Biometric facial recognition helps in individual tracking of employees based on their physiological characteristics, eliminates time theft by workers, increases payroll accuracy by reducing errors, reduce administrative time in manual data collection.

Since biometric face recognition access control system is not like punching cards, so now you can say good-bye to buddy punching, and increase employee accountability and productivity. But how you can increase adoption of biometric face recognition system among your employees? Here are three tips to increase user adoption after installing biometric system at your workplace.

1. Educate your employees:Biometric time and attendance solutions are efficient, fast and secure. These biometric systems enhance the security level not only at a workplace but also in schools, government buildings, educational institutes and other organisations. Before and after the rollout of face recognition attendance system, educate your employees about the benefits of using this technology, both for the employees and organisation. Since, managers can track when and for how much time employees are working, staff can be made accountable for their time and as a result, their output. Employees don’t have to worry about bringing their punch cards daily. Payroll and security staff will not have to spend time recovering lost passwords and manually collecting data related to employee clock-in times.
2. Resolve the issues:If you have installed a biometric face recognition attendance system for the first time at your workplace, then some of your employees may provide excuses not to use the new solution. Listen to the problems of your employees and resolve them to make sure everyone use the new attendance system actively. As an employer, you must ensure that senior management is supportive about the installation of new access control system otherwise, user adoption rate will drop.
3. Better performance evaluation:Tell your employees how biometric solution can ensure performance metrics are applied correctly and consistently across all staff. By adopting an electronic face recognition access control solution, companies can accurately measure employee performance, resulting in better evaluation of work performance.

Many small and medium sized companies are still using the pen-paper or log-book based attendance systems. It is highly time-consuming process. Ditch traditional way of maintaining attendance records, and go for biometric face recognition attendance system. Better insight into when workers are doing a particular project helps employers more accurately invoice clients and inform external stake holders. Real-time access to workforce attendance data makes it easier for manager to take better decisions and use the data to increase efficiencies. The aforesaid tips will help you make your employees realize the benefits of using biometric face recognition access control system for organisation.

Mr. Rawlson is presently working as a senior advisor at a leading company providing Epss and biometric authentication system. He is an experienced communications professional, management consultant and trade journalist.