How to Combine Employee Time Tracking with Door Access Control

Most IT and HR teams manage time tracking and physical access control as two completely separate systems. One team owns the time clock software, another owns the badge readers. When an employee leaves, you have to update both. When you audit access logs, you're cross-referencing two different databases.

There's a better way.

The Problem with Two Separate Systems

Here's what a typical offboarding looks like when time tracking and access control are siloed:

HR terminates the employee in the HRIS

Someone remembers to disable their time tracking account

Someone else (maybe) disables their building access card

The old card gets added to a drawer, not deactivated

Two weeks later, you realize their door access is still active

This is how you end up with the statistic that over 60% of insider security incidents involve former employees with lingering access .…