If you measure attendance, you will get attendance. However, there's no value in attendance.
The question is what is the current attendance?
If attendance is a problem, then it makes perfect sense to measure it.
The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are public officials and those are public contact details.
If you look at the data.gov site, you will find datasets from Chicago police department that contains official names and how much salary they withdraw, everything public.
Similarly, the salaries of every employee of the state of Texas, by name: http://salaries.texastribune.org/
Teachers, police, politicians, everyone.
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#23I see this system as a force that compels people to work longer hours than is neccesary. Public access to this data will make people name and shame particular individuals in the bureaucracy who might consistently clock in a little bit late, even though the reason behind the lateness might be legitimate (caring for others in family or long term illness). This is not transparency it just makes bureaucracy worse.
Many indian government employees don't even work 2 hours a day. This system will definitely help in changing the culture before it becomes an issue.
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#24Biometric based attendance system is violation of privacy.
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#25checkout the "Attendance In-Time Statistics" pie chart on main Dashboard .. 33% are coming to office after 11 AM ,almost at lunch time.. great isn't :)
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#26Can someone point to the visualization libraries being used in the attendance website?
yeah pure highcharts .. and this is the theme "http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB08N77TC" which they have used .. costs around $15
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#27The real interesting part of this story was barely discussed: That one person could build an entire system like this for the country.
10 years ago it would have taken a 100 people
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#28"In all, it costs around Rs3 crore ($490,000). “It’s still in the trial stage,” said Sharma, “And we are still getting feedback on it.”
While the website looks sleek, I'm not sure the what the expected ROI is on the 3 crores spend. What are we to expect of this system ? That government officials can be held accountable for not maintaining attendance ?
It reminds me of the very first job I held. Work would be allotted to me and I'd finish it in 5-6 hours and head home. I'd work an hour or two on researching how to improve our existing systems and implement them the next day. At the end of the week a manager pulled out a report that said I'd clocked low hours and I was punished for it. Those who stayed back to have tea and a late supper clocked more hours and were considered `hard working`.
Attendance != productivity or progress
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#29Can someone point to the visualization libraries being used in the attendance website?
Seems to me like this http://www.almsaeedstudio.com/preview - a free template.