Recently I worked with a client who came to me with several challenges and requests:

* There is no way to know when an employee is about to go into overtime... Nothing alerts us when someone approaches overtime or is jeopardy when comparing actual to scheduled hours.

* We spend too much time adding up our hours and make tons of mistakes.

* We don't know when someone miss punches and punches in too early or late.

* Our employees have different pay rates for when they work in different departments.

When I was in college, we had a favorite hang-out called “The Late Night Library”. I have been told that my college town was not the only one to have a similar named establishment. Of course, this was the “in” place to be and quite naturally, it was convenient to tell parents, professors or even your girlfriend you‘re “at the library”.