Many shifts and working patterns easily created with WinTA software

Northumbria Police this week revealed it was shedding 450 civilian jobs to meet financial targets, given that central government funding will be reduced. The force said this measure will not affect police officers, although a recruitment freeze is underway there. It added in a statement: "Police staff have also been invited to take advantage of other flexible working arrangements to generate further savings. This includes options such as part time or reduced hours working, job share, term time working, flexible retirement or possibly early retirement."

If employees are asked to undertake different shifts or working patterns, maybe because the firm is struggling, then Tensor's range of Windows™ based smart card time and attendance products take this in their stride. Our two time and attendance systems are WinTA Lite (for smaller companies) and WinTA Enterprise (for larger companies) which deal with all clocking matters, from simple collection of employees' clocking data, through to job costing and extensive labour hours analysis. Many working patterns — flexi-time, night shifts and overtime — are easily created with the software.