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Electronic timecards coming
Posted 8/6/2012 Updated 8/6/2012
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by Carl Grusnick
377th Air Base Wing Public Affairs
8/6/2012 - KIRTLAND AFB, N.M. -- Paper time cards recording Air Force civilian employee attendance will soon take their place alongside rotary-dial phones and floppy disks.
Nearly all Air Force civilians are slated to transition to the new Automated Time Attendance and Production System, a Web-based electronic recordkeeping method, in 2013.
"Gone will be the time-honored paper time card, replaced by a new standardized, paperless electronic pay recording system," said Christie Tarantino, Kirtland Air Force Base civilian pay technician.
ATAPS will be deployed throughout the Air Force in waves. Already in use at several Air Force sites, Kirtland AFB will benefit from the lessons learned by earlier adopters.
"The Army has been using ATAPS for some time, so along with the early test bed of Air Force bases already on the system, we'll have plenty of real-world experience under our belt before we go live here at Kirtland," said Tarantino.
Using the computer-based application, employees will be able to record their time daily or all at once per pay period.
"ATAPS is error-proofed, designed to virtually eliminate the usual errors that seem to be rife with the current paper system," said Tarantino.
Because recording will be standardized and include prompts for correct inputs, the elimination of common coding and math errors will provide greater accuracy and accountability.
According to an Air Force study, 50 percent of the service's timecards are not properly processed, slowing correct payment to civilian employees.
"Much of my time, and that of unit timekeepers, is spent correcting simple errors in timecards, which can be frustrating for the affected employees," said Tarantino.
Staggered implementation of the ATAPS on Kirtland AFB is expected to begin later in 2012, and will start with employee training across base units, she said.
"It will include everyone on base, and eventually even those units with legacy electronic civilian attendance reporting systems will eventually convert, as well," said Tarantino.
According to Tarantino, only those employees without computer access will continue to record their work attendance on paper. |
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