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Case Study

Case Study 16: Heartbeats

Heart Beats Co., Ltd.

A 24-hour work system that unifies complicated shift patterns with the “KING OF TIME” system!
Heartbeats Co., Ltd. is engaged in MSP business and IT consulting business including server monitoring service. It has a manned operation running 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to reduce the load on staff who managed operations according to the shift pattern of 24 hours system.

They are using “KING OF TIME” with IC card authentication.

 

Business summary

Company name Heartbeats Co., Ltd.

Business format 24hr/365 Day Manned server monitoring service

Number of users Approximately 100

Number of bases 1

 

 

Issues before introduction

Since the 24-hour operation system has been established, the work system has become complicated and the burden of attendance management has increased.
I felt that there was a limit to attendance management with free software + Excel.
The initial software only supported about three types of shift patterns, and employees had to be forced to perform complicated operations each time they worked shorter hours.
I had to take the extracted data into my PC one by one and work on it.

 

 

Effect after introduction

The manager class can now grasp the overtime hours of team members in real-time without having to import them into Excel one by one and doing the calculation.

It is also beneficial that each company can easily create their own rules. You can use existing cards as well.
Employees now only have to choose between “commuting” and “leaving”.

Time-card mistakes have been greatly reduced, and employees and managers have been freed from the extra burden.

 

 

Director Kazuya Maekawa

Currently, more than 60 employees are working, of which 90% are engineers. The operation management staff centred on them, work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year according to multiple shift patterns according to the job content. Work patterns become even more complicated, such as when a customer’s system fails, such as urgent night work or remote response from home. 

In the past, attendance management for such a complicated work system was performed using free entry/exit management software and Excel.

Therefore, we started considering the introduction of an attendance management system around the spring of 2014.
However, although I created a test account and tried it with some solutions for restaurants, all of them could not cope with the irregular work system in detail.

While it was difficult to find an attendance management solution that suits my company’s circumstances, I turned my attention to “KING OF TIME.” Temporarily introduced it from the fall of 2014, and first proceeded with verification while using it with a small number of people, and I was convinced that I could go! Implementation. We officially decided to replace the system, which led to the full-scale introduction in June 2015.

There are several reasons for confirming KING OF TIME, but the first important point is that the manager class can grasp the overtime hours of team members in real-time without having to import them into Excel and aggregate them. In that case, it is also attractive that each person can easily create their own rules.

For example, it is possible to display staff with average overtime of more than 2 hours in yellow on the screen. When I find a staff member who is a little hard work like that, I try to watch the situation and talk to them, paying attention to their physical condition and motivation.

 

Management Department Ms Iwaya

Previous work with Excel had to be done manually one by one, which was very time-consuming. It can now be accessed and checked immediately when it’s free, so you can make better use of your business hours.

The operation screen is also easy to see and intuitive, so it is easy to understand how to use it, and it is not necessary to explain it verbally, which is helpful.

 

Management Department Ms Taguchi

In the previous system, I had to take the extracted data to my PC one by one to do the work, so the pace was once a month. With “KING OF TIME”, you can easily check the data from your web browser on a weekly or daily basis, which makes you feel very comfortable.

Most questions and problems can be solved simply by checking the Q&A.