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Calculating entries keyed-in

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by iqbal98

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I manage a team of 10 data entry staff who are assigned to key-in the hours worked by over 3000 security guards in over 35 branches nationwide. We then run the payroll application at the end of the month to process the salaries.

Since I am also busy with other matters in the office, I cannot possibly check on the amount of data keyed-in by each staff for thenormal working hours from 9.00 am till 5.30 pm.They are in the habit of working overtime and this adds to the costs.

I shall be glad if you could tell me if there is anyway that I can use the data key-in to determine or if there is any utility that can be used to check on them.

Your help will be invaluable.

thankyou

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by joseph moore

Well, you can have a keylogger program installed on each data entry workstation. It will depend on the operating system of the workstations, of course, if you need a UNIX keylogger or a Windows keylogger.
I went to www.download.com and did a searchfor "keylogger" and had 34 hits.

Keylogger programs record in files each and every single keystroke entered on the client system. Some of these programs can even e-mail the results to an e-mail address. I think that most just make a big log of all keystroke entries.
These programs usually run with no visual cueues that they are on. No icons flashing or anything like that. They try to be secret, so the user using the workstation does not know their keystrokes are being logged.

Check outkeyloggers. I think this is what you need.

hope this helps

by gigelul

Hi,
I think that if you will use a "keylogger" you will spend more time to analyze these results.
I think that you must analyze how much time require each type of data entry and establish a daily charge for every employee.
Your payroll application can record who entered data? If yes, you can make a report and extract the amount of data keyed-in by each employee.

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