Timeclock Lore

T&A, it's not always what you think!


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Is your time clock a slacker?

We have nothing against the time clock. In fact, Kronos invented the electronic time clock in 1979. And our 400-series terminal, released in 1993, quickly became the most popular time clock ever sold. So our roots are firmly entrenched in time clocks and time and attendance.

But time clocks are so 20th century. And we've entered the age of completely automated data collection devices and time and attendance processes. Touch-screen devices that can control access, provide additional security, verify employees with biometric technology, and give you the full power of workforce management.

Kronos data collection devices not only capture employee time transactions. Combined with our completely automated timekeeping, they help you control labor costs. Minimize compliance risk. And improve workforce productivity. These three benefits are at the core of simplified workforce management. And it all begins with a swipe of the badge.

Want to know more? Learn more about the Kronos® InTouch™, the time clock built for today's modern workforce.

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Kronos - Cronus. God of Time.

KRONOS (or Cronus) was the Titan god of time and the ages, especially time where regarded as destructive and all-devouring. He ruled the cosmos during the so-called Golden Age, after castrating and deposing his father Ouranos (the Sky). In fear of a prophecy that he would be in turn be overthrown by his own son, Kronos swallowed each of his children as soon as they were born. Rhea managed to save the youngest, Zeus, by hiding him away on the island of Krete, and fed Kronos a stone wrapped in the swaddling clothes of an infant. The god grew up, forced Kronos to disgorge his swallowed offspring, and led the Olympians in a ten year war against the Titanes, before driving them defeated into the pit of Tartaros.

Many human generations later, Zeus released Kronos and his brothers from this prison, and made the old Titan king of the Elysian Islands, home of the blessed dead. Kronos was essentially the same as Khronos, the primordial god of time in the Orphic Theogonies.

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Time clock's history

No need for a them

At first payroll clocks were unneeded. People were paid a dollar a day and worked from sun-up to sun-down. In the summer people worked longer hours and in the winter shorter. Since the time worked was fixed at a day recording the hours worked was unnecessary.

The necessity

During the industrial revolution people started to work in factories. In a factory the work day is more fixed. More and more people were paid by the hour rather than by the day. With the shift to hourly wages came the need for timecards to keep track of when someone worked. A time clock protects the owner by making sure that each employee works the number of hours they said they did. Time clocks also protect the employees by providing an official version of the hours they worked on a timecard. This makes it harder for employers to cheat them out of wages.
Edison's clock
The photo on this page is of Edison's time clock. After Edison died the time he last clocked out was etched into the time clock, and later painted on. It now always reads 7:10 am.

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