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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Softworks Workforce Management Solutions Ltd · www.softworks.com

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The Operations Lead

Weighted verdict

Runs a 200-person operation with office, workshop and field staff, and has to record all of them since the BAG ruling. Wants capture that fits each of those groups and a roster that reflects reality. Unmoved by a beautiful desktop timer that half the workforce cannot use.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Operations Lead

Capture in the real workplace

How this is scored

How time actually gets recorded across the workforces a buyer has — desk staff, field and site crews, shift and deskless workers — and what happens when the network is not there.

0 — One browser timer and nothing else; anyone away from a desk records nothing.

3 — Web plus a mobile app, but no offline capture, no shared terminal, and corrections are an admin task rather than a workflow.

5 — Web, mobile and at least one shared capture point (kiosk, terminal or badge), with offline capture that syncs, and a correction workflow with approval.

8 — Several capture paths including hardware terminals or badge readers, reliable offline handling, GPS or geofenced check-in where the vendor states its limits, and bulk correction with an audit trail of who changed what.

10 — Capture fits the workforce rather than the reverse: desk, deskless, field and shift models all first-class, offline as a designed state rather than a failure mode, and every correction attributable, reasoned and reversible.

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The Operations Lead

Biometrics, proximity devices, digital clock terminals and geofenced mobile clocking cover my desk, workshop and field crews in one platform, and edited timesheets route to a manager for approval with alerts on who has not signed off — that is the capture breadth I need. We found no public information on offline capture when a site has no signal, on stated limits of the geofencing, or on bulk corrections showing who changed what, which keeps it short of the top band. 1 3 4 6

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Working-time law & audit record

How this is scored

Whether the record satisfies the German recording duty (BAG 2022, § 3 ArbSchG) and the ArbZG rules around it — breaks, maximum hours, rest periods, retention — and whether it survives being inspected.

0 — Hours are summed and nothing else; no break handling, no limits, no retention statement.

3 — Break deduction exists but is a flat rule; no daily maximum or rest-period checks, and no stated retention period.

5 — Configurable break rules, warnings on the 8/10-hour daily maximum and the 11-hour rest period, and per-employee reports covering the recording duty.

8 — The ArbZG rules are modelled rather than approximated: break and rest enforcement with documented exceptions, overtime and time-account rules, the two-year retention handled by the system, and an export built for an inspection.

10 — The vendor treats the record as evidence: tamper-evident entries with full change history, retention and deletion executed per statute, documented handling of on-call, standby and travel time, and published guidance mapping features to the ArbZG sections they serve.

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The Operations Lead

The compliance story is built around the European Working Time Directive and the US Fair Labor Standards Act, with configurable rules for minimum rest, mandatory breaks, maximum weekly hours and overtime, plus audit trails. We found no public information on the German recording duty after the BAG ruling, on warnings for the daily maximum or the eleven-hour rest period, or on a retention period and an inspection-ready export, so I would still have to argue the German case myself. 1 6

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Absence & shift planning

How this is scored

Vacation, sickness and the shift or duty roster — the half of attendance that decides whether the time data means anything.

0 — No absence handling; vacation lives in a separate calendar or spreadsheet.

3 — Vacation requests with approval, but entitlement is manual, carry-over is not handled and there is no rostering.

5 — Automatic entitlement and carry-over, sickness recording, an absence calendar, and basic shift planning with availability.

8 — Public-holiday calendars per location, pro-rata entitlement, substitution and swap workflows, shift templates with qualification and rest-period checks, and coverage warnings before publication.

10 — Planning and recording are one system: rosters that respect statutory rest and the works agreement, absence that reflows the plan automatically, and forecast-versus-actual reporting a team lead can act on.

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The Operations Lead

Automatic leave accruals by service and hours worked, Bradford Factor and return-to-work handling, shift templates with skills and constraint checks, swaps validated against roles before manager approval, over- and understaffing alerts and automatic gap-filling by email and SMS describe a roster that reflects reality. We found no public information on public-holiday calendars per location or on carry-over of untaken leave. 1 5 6

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Project, cost-centre & billing

How this is scored

Whether recorded time can carry the allocation an agency, workshop or professional-services firm needs — project, task, cost centre, billable status — through to an invoice or a client report.

0 — Attendance only; no project, task or cost-centre dimension at all.

3 — A free-text note or a single project field, with no rates, no billable flag and no per-project reporting.

5 — Projects and tasks with a billable flag and per-project reports, plus a rate per person or per project.

8 — Multi-level structure (client, project, task, cost centre), rate cards by person, role and project, budget tracking with warnings, and an invoice-ready export.

10 — Time becomes revenue without re-entry: approval before billing, rate rules that survive a rate change mid-project, client-facing reports, and a maintained handoff into named accounting or invoicing systems.

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The Operations Lead

Time tracks against a work breakdown structure with six real-time project reports including actual versus budgeted hours and project costs, and timesheets pass an approval workflow before sign-off. We found no public information on a billable flag, client rate cards, budget warnings or an invoice-ready handoff into named accounting systems — the rates the pages show are premium pay rates, not billing rates. 6 7 8

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Payroll handoff

How this is scored

How the recorded month reaches payroll — DATEV, Lohn und Gehalt, an in-house system or the tax adviser — and how much of it is automated rather than retyped.

0 — No payroll path stated; the month leaves as a spreadsheet someone retypes.

3 — Generic CSV said to be usable for payroll, with no named system, no defined format and no handling of surcharges.

5 — A named payroll integration or a documented export format for at least one major system, covering hours, absences and overtime.

8 — Vendor-maintained integration with a named provider, covering night, Sunday and holiday surcharges, time accounts and mid-month changes, with a lock step before transmission.

10 — Payroll is designed for, not exported to: several named systems maintained, an auditable approval and lock, retro handling for corrections after the close, and the tax adviser given their own scoped access.

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The Operations Lead

Clockings are verified through time clock integration and digital sign-off, and validated data covering hours, absence, premium rates and overtime rules goes to a direct payroll integration — more than a spreadsheet someone retypes. We found no public information on a named payroll system or a documented export format; the only tax forms named are UK ones such as P45 and P60, and we found no public information on German payroll systems such as DATEV. 1 5 6

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the data lives, who the contracting entity is, who the subprocessors are, and whether that is documented rather than assumed. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; scored here as this buyer weighs it.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting region unstated or non-EU, subprocessors not named.

3 — EU hosting offered as an option, but the contracting entity is non-EU or the subprocessor list is absent.

5 — EU hosting as standard and an EU contracting entity, but the subprocessor chain includes non-EU providers without an explained safeguard.

8 — EU or DACH hosting with a named data-centre provider, EU contracting entity, full subprocessor list published, and any non-EU processing named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, entity, hosting and every subprocessor in the EU, data-centre certification published, and an on-premises or private-cloud option for buyers who need it.

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The Operations Lead

The pages state GDPR compliance, ISO 27001 certification and an on-premise deployment option, and list offices in Ireland and the UK alongside Canada and the USA. The contracting entity's jurisdiction, the hosting region and the subprocessor list are all unconfirmed on the captured pages, so I cannot show my works council where the data sits or who processes it. 1 6 7

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual invoice for their headcount — including terminals, modules and minimums — from public pages alone.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A per-user headline exists, but hardware, modules or a minimum seat count are unpriced or unmentioned.

5 — Per-user prices public for the main tiers with the billing period stated, but at least one commonly needed piece (terminal hardware, planning module, payroll export) sits in an unpriced bundle.

8 — Every tier and module priced publicly with per-user maths, billing period, minimum term and VAT treatment stated; only genuinely custom work lacks a number.

10 — Complete price computability: a calculator or table producing the annual invoice for a given headcount and module selection, including hardware, setup and renewal terms.

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The Operations Lead

The commercial model is described — a predictable pay-as-you-use cloud subscription, modular purchase of items like Task Management, Time Clock Integration and Predictive Scheduling, and a choice of on-premise or cloud — but we found no public prices for any tier, module, terminal hardware or minimum seat count. For my headcount the annual invoice is a sales conversation, not a computation. 1 6

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Sources (8)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.softworks.com Checked 22 Sep 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Legal notice — found from the homepage www.softworks.com Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Capture in the real workplace — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Absence & shift planning — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Project, cost-centre & billing — found from sitemap www.softworks.com Checked 1 Oct 2026 Details →