Time and Attendance solutions can make your life much easier by replacing inefficient manual systems like paper-based time reporting sheets, mechanical clock card punch machines, or basic scheduling spreadsheets (to name a few). Manual systems rely on highly skilled personnel tediously managing the workplace and labor force using paper based solutions of the past. Employee hours worked are calculated based on paper cards which have times stamped onto them using a time stamping machine (mechanical clock). Time stamping machines have been in use for over a century and may still be bought new today. However, managers relying on such manual systems are often relying on printed work schedules that are obsolete shortly after they are printed.