EmpCenter, easy for end users
We began using EmpCenter about 1 year ago and rolled it out over 6 months to all of our employees. Our payroll is confusing because we have Classified (Union) employees, Faculty, Students, etc., so many types of employees with various levels of eligible leave and overtime rules. We had to find a system that work for all of these types of employees but was still affordable (we are a State university) and easy for our end users and worked with Banner.
So far EmpCenter has been a work in progress. Many of the things we thought would be easier have become easier over time. Although the implementation has not been as smooth as we wanted and some of the items we were told would be easy to program have not been as easy as we thought and have cost us more money. Although, overall, it has been a system that is more accurate in recording time than our previous paper time sheets and makes us more compliant with things like overtime eligibility.
- Requesting time off.
- Recording of time.
Cons
- We have many different employees with different eligibility for leave and overtime pay and it has not been as easy for us to set all of these different employee up.
- The log in screen is tiny, could be larger for easier viewing.
- For employees that have more than 1 job or change jobs from term to term or throughout the year there are some difficulties with those transitions.
- Instead of Enter My Hours, it should say My Timesheet. Most of our employees are salaried and only used EmpCenter for leave requests for time off. If they want to view their time sheet Enter My Hours does not seem like the appropriate name.