Workers being paid for time not worked

Members of staff across the world are taking advantage of clocking in and out and are being paid for time they are not working.

According to a survey conducted by The Workplace Institute, Kronos and Harris Interactive, 37 per cent of UK workers have cheated when clocking in or out to ensure they are paid for time they have not been working.

Clocking in earlier or out later than scheduled, having someone else clock them in or out, neglecting to clock out for lunch or breaks, adding time to timesheets, were all highlighted as ways of cheating the system by workers around the world.

However, UK workers were far from the worst culprits, with 73 per cent of employees in India admitting to engaging in one or more of these behaviours, followed by 72 per cent in China and 51 per cent of those surveyed in Australia.

Joyce Maroney, director of The Workforce Institute, Kronos, said: "Organisations with employees around the world need to take a hard look at their time keeping technologies and policies and make sure that they are using the latest technology, configuring their solutions appropriately, and setting correct policies to minimise this kind of fraud."

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