Predicting upcoming missed clockings and alerting workers or managers

An apparatus for providing alerts prior to potential missed clockings, the apparatus comprising at least one processor;

• and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following:
• to retrieve historical employee clockings;
• to identify missed clockings based on an alignment of the historical employee clockings;
• to extract features representative of the missed clockings;
• to generate a predictive model based on statistical correlations of the extracted features;
• for each upcoming scheduled clocking in a prediction window, to determine a risk factor of the upcoming scheduled clocking being missed based on the predictive model;
• and
• based at least in part on the risk factor, to present an alert prior to the upcoming scheduled clocking.

A computer readable medium tangibly encoded with a computer program for providing alerts prior to potential missed clockings, the computer program executable by a processor to perform actions comprising:

• retrieving historical employee clockings;
• identifying missed clockings based on an alignment of the historical employee clockings;
• extracting features representative of the missed clockings;
• generating a predictive model based on statistical correlations of the extracted features;
• for each upcoming scheduled clocking in a prediction window, determining a risk factor of the upcoming scheduled clocking being missed based on the predictive model;
• and
• based at least in part on the risk factor, presenting an alert prior to the upcoming scheduled clocking.