For student employees
What HourFlag means for you.
HourFlag helps your department check timesheets before they are approved: what it does, what it doesn’t, and a paragraph your department can paste into its student handbook.
For the student handbook
This department uses HourFlag to check student timesheets before they are approved. It looks for time entries worth a second look, like a forgotten clock-out or a clock-out well past the end of a shift. It counts hours you may not have been paid for in the department’s findings; if you think you were paid too little, tell your manager, as today. Every flag is a question to your manager, not a conclusion: your manager checks the times, and asks you when only you know the answer. HourFlag reads the timesheet reports your department already has, and uses only what it needs from them, such as your employee ID, work area, clock times and schedule. It never uses GPS or anything from your phone or computer, and it tracks no one during a shift. The rules it uses are public at hourflag.com/rules.
What it looks for
Hours recorded past the schedule or the opening hours, such as:
- a clock-out forgotten after a long shift
- a clock-out well after the shift ended
- the same extra minutes, shift after shift
Mistakes happen
A forgotten clock-out, or a missed punch typed in later, is easy to do. A flag is how it gets fixed before payday, instead of after.
A flag is a question, not a conclusion
Your manager sees the times behind each flag and gives one of three answers:
- The hours are right.
- The hours need fixing.
- Your manager needs to ask you.
If your manager asks, a short reply with the right time is all it takes. Your manager then makes the correction in the timekeeping system, before your timesheet is approved.
No tracking, and no scores
HourFlag reads the timesheet reports your department already has, and uses only what it needs from them: your employee ID, your work area, your clock-in and clock-out times, your schedule, and any corrections or missed punches. It ignores everything else in those reports and never keeps it.
It never uses GPS or anything from your phone or computer, and it tracks no one during a shift. It ranks timesheet entries, never people, and there is no score for any student.
The rules are public
Every rule HourFlag uses is written out in plain English on the rules page, with what it needs and what your manager sees.
If you think a flag was wrong, you can ask your manager to show you the times behind it.