While the recovery movement control order (RMCO) in Malaysia has enabled most businesses to reopen, many companies are encouraging staff to continue to work from home and help prevent the next wave of COVID-19. How then can management and employees achieve efficient and fair working hours remotely as well as ensuring safe and secure work environments for those returning to the office?

The new Facial Recognition and Authentication feature on the Digital HR Mobile app from MiHCM, the digital HCM solution specialist, means that contactless Time Attendance management is now possible.

The MiHCM Mobile app provides a fully-fledged Time Attendance and HR services system, which now incorporates time tracking features such as facial recognition, geofencing and geo-tagging.

The first of its kind in the South East Asia market, the new facial recognition feature will allow businesses to track employee check-in and check-out through a contactless attendance system to support remote workforces, while helping to maintain COVID-19 prevention measures at the workplace.

The new feature also allows Human Resources Departments to digitally record essential attendance and leave, timesheet, time change, overtime requests submissions and all related approvals in one system.

Harsha Purasinghe, Founder, and CEO of MiHCM, says, “As businesses across the region adopt safety practices to combat COVID-19 and protect employees, facial recognition technology will be a helpful tool to accurately capture workforce attendance.

“It means that contact-based modalities such as PIN numbers and keypads are now not the only option. The alternative and safe solution is this new feature on MiHCM Mobile. By eliminating the need to physically touch the attendance capture devices, we are confident that the MiHCM Mobile App will greatly help businesses during this period.

MiHCM Mobile is designed to run with or without the MiHCM HR platform, enabling any business to make use of this mobile face recognition enabled check IN/OUT capability, while  integrating to their respective HR system.

MiHCM's footprint in the region extends to more than 300 companies across 15 international markets with clients in large Banking and Finance, Manufacturing, Telco, Professional Services, Retail and Technology companies. MiHCM is the digital HR technology JV partner of OMESTI.