Recording attendance has moved from manual register to biometrics, to mobile apps to even CCTV based interfaces – where facial recognition is used to capture time and attendance. Technology tools like PeopleStrong Alt Worklife mobile application use an automated notification enabled approval thereby easing the experience for both employees as well as managers. Companies using such technologies have seen significant time savings. One player in BFSI reportedly saved 400 hours simply by moving away from attendance tracking using biometrics (1-3 minutes) to switching to multiple logins via app-based systems (17-20 seconds).

Change is the only constant. And it is technology that is at the forefront of driving change at the modern day workplace. Although machine learning seems like a recent buzzword in technology, did you know it was first coined in 1959 at IBM? At that time, machine learning was defined as a way to give "computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed." Nowadays its potential is understood by "watching the performance of a computer program. As it iterates, one can quantify its improvement, and state whether the system is learning or not."