Attendance Management System Split Shift Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional attendance management systems are inadequate for handling work styles where employees have multiple attendance and leaving times within a single day, as they are based on the assumption of a single workday pattern, leading to inaccurate tracking and management of work hours.
Innovation Solution
An attendance management method and system that records and manages multiple attendance and leaving times by generating data records for each instance, allowing workers to log attendance and leaving times flexibly throughout the day, using a database to track and calculate total work hours.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional attendance management systems are used that assume single workday pattern, then system simplicity is maintained, but measurement precision of work hours deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the workday into multiple attendance and leaving time segments, allowing workers to record multiple attendance instances within a single day. This segmentation enables accurate tracking of split shifts and multiple work periods, resolving the contradiction by maintaining system simplicity while improving measurement precision through structured data collection
2Measurement precision
If multiple attendance and leaving times are recorded for single day work, then work hours tracking accuracy is improved, but data management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new dimensional structure by creating a many-to-many relationship between attendance records and work days. Instead of one attendance record per day, the system allows multiple attendance and leaving time pairs within a single work day, adding a temporal dimension that enables precise tracking of multiple work periods without proportionally increasing management complexity
3Adaptability or versatility
If traditional single attendance-leaving record per day is used, then data management simplicity is maintained, but adaptability to non-traditional work schedules deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic data structure that can adapt to varying work schedules. The system allows the number of attendance and leaving time records per day to be variable rather than fixed, enabling accommodation of traditional single-shift, split-shift, and multiple-work-period schedules. This dynamic approach improves adaptability while managing complexity through consistent underlying data relationships
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AI summary
An attendance management method according to the present invention comprises: a step in which, at each of a plurality of times a worker starts work during one day, when a computer is operated so as to record the start time or when the computer detects the start of work by the worker, the computer generates a data record for recording the start time and records the start time in the data record generated; and a step in which, when the computer is operated by the worker to record an end time or detects the end of work by the worker, the computer records the end time in the data record in which the most recent start time is registered.