Summary: If tracking employee time across locations feels like herding cats, LightWork Time may be exactly what your team needs. Here’s an overview of what it does and how it results in stress-free Sage 100 labor tracking for you.
Your on-site employees fill out hard-to-read paper timesheets. Your remote employees email in their hours on Fridays… but sometimes they send them on Thursdays, sometimes on Mondays, and sometimes with a note that says, “I think this is right.”
It’s a big enough task to enter all those hours into your system, but the task gets so much worse when you discover that two employees have already hit overtime you didn’t see coming.
You created the schedule and thought you knew where everybody stood, but now payroll is a mess, and you’re scrambling. Again.
Sound familiar? Let’s talk about how LightWork Time can take the stress out of labor tracking.
What Is LightWork Time?
Designed for organizations with 25 to 2,500 employees, LightWork Time is a labor tracking platform that makes labor management stress-free. It works for businesses with remote, on-site, or hybrid teams across one or multiple locations.
According to your policies and preferences, you can set time tracking as lump sums or ranges of specific hours worked, and you can fully configure your team’s earning types as regular hours, PTO, sick time, and more.
It’s also part of a broader suite from LightWork Software that includes Performance Management, Recruitment, and People Management.
Most importantly, it gives you real-time insight into your employees’ hours, so you can avoid payroll deadline surprises.
How Employees Clock In
The #1 way to reduce your stress around Sage 100 labor tracking is to ensure you’re capturing accurate punches.
When you switch to LightWork Time, you’ll never again have to chase down emailed spreadsheets or hand-written timecards. Instead, your employees will have multiple, convenient ways to record time:
- Desktop — a straightforward punch option for office-based staff
- Physical time clocks — biometric, facial recognition, card swipe, or proximity
- Kiosk mode — set up on any shared device for easy multi-employee use
- Mobile — employees can punch in and out from any device, and geotagging lets you see exactly where they’re doing it
No More Overtime Surprises
Because your employees enter time as it happens in LightWork (rather than emailing it in days later), you and the rest of your management team will be able to see where employees stand before overtime kicks in.
If overtime is unavoidable, you can reduce stress with LightWork Time’s built-in overtime rules, which calculate overtime for you, quickly and correctly. That means you can eliminate the coding errors that inevitably arise from rushed manual entry.
But let’s be 100% real here.
Real-time visibility is only half the solution because there’s no universe in which you’ll be able to review every employee punch, every day, as it happens.
And that’s totally okay.
With LightWork Time, you aren’t chained to your computer. Managers get real-time notifications for missing punches, unapproved timesheets, and PTO requests, so nothing slips through the cracks. And if an employee works across multiple locations, multiple managers can input and approve time for the same employee.
One System, One Entry
Once time is approved, LightWork connects directly to Sage 100 Payroll so the data flows into your payroll process without anyone (ahem: you) having to re-enter it.
Enter it once, and you’re done.
Now, that’s a stress-free pay period.
Ready to Make Sage 100 Labor Tracking Easy?
If you’re wondering whether LightWork Time is a good fit for your team, we’re happy to help you think it through. No sales pitch, and no pressure – just real problem-solving centered on your precise situation.
