Fixed
A start and an end. The day is the clock on the wall.
HR software
Attendance, shifts, and the roster.
This is the HR system. The roster, attendance rules, shifts, holidays, and whether someone is salaried or hourly. Set the week once so it is not rebuilt, and the hours are not argued over.
Attendance — three kinds of shift
Flexible
A wide window, and a core stretch when a person must be there.
Open
No clock. A number of hours that make a full day, for field and hourly work.
Roster
People, where they sit, and who is allowed to see them. One list for this company, so a change is made once.
Breaks
A pause with a length. Paid or unpaid. Taken because someone stepped away, or deducted because the shift says so.
Half days
A holiday that takes the morning or the afternoon, and says how long the rest of the day still is.
Pay basis
Salaried, or hourly with a rate and a week that knows when overtime begins.
