Patent ID: 8306854

Claim:
A system of payroll time measurement and reporting, comprising: a computer system; an application, that when executed on the computer system, observes login and logout events at a client workstation, the login and logout events enabling and disabling employee access to a workplace operating system executing on the client workstation, respectively; observes a first login event, a first logout event, a second login event, and a second logout event occur in order during a time period; determines a first payroll time exception when the time of the first previously observed login event varies from a scheduled first login time by greater than a first predetermined time interval; determines a second payroll time exception when the time of the second previously observed logout event varies from a scheduled second logout time by greater than a second predetermined time interval; determines a third payroll time exception when a period of time between the first previously observed logout event and the second previously observed login event exceeds a third predetermined time interval; determines a fourth payroll time exception when one of the first previously observed logout event and the second previously observed logout event does not occur before the end of the time period; and reports the first payroll time exception, the second payroll time exception, the third payroll time exception, and the fourth payroll time exception to a workforce management function.