Many Milwaukee Businesses Stand Bystclicklocal.com Old-Fashioned Employee Time Clocks
Despite all the advances in technology in the past 30 years, many Milwaukee businesses are refusing to part ways with one old standby: the punch clock. While many are still familiar with the phrase “punching the clock” or “punching in” when you show up to work, the actual device that spawned the phrase has been on the wane in recent years. Increasingly, old-fashioned punch clocks have been replaced with fancy, high tech employee time clocks.
Many newer models of employee time clocks may feature swipe cards or keypads to enter user identification numbers, PIN codes or passwords. In comparison, old-time “punch clocks” worked by physically imprinting a date and time onto a paper card. While the old-fashioned punch clocks may now seem quaint by comparison, when they first became widespread, they were considered a marvel of modern technology.
So why are some Milwaukee business refusing to get with the times and install newer, more feature-rich employee time clocks? Well, in this old-line manufacturing town, perhaps it’s a sense of nostalgia for days gone by. While many of the big companies and factories have packed up and moved on, Milwaukee remains tied to its past and continues to have a thoroughly blue-collar image. There’s something that’s quite iconic about the image of a group of men working hard on the factory line and, at the end of the day, punching the time clock and heading home. So while many of the factories have gone, the image of Milwaukee – and that of the old-fashioned punch clock – remains.
