Business Sense

As near as I can tell, management tends to think thusly;

You can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a new electronic timecard system, send every supervisor and lead to a training class to operate it, and give them all these super huge 666 page manuals to cover all the information they've forgotten from the training session and this is more 'cost effective' than hiring one more person for payroll so we can stick with the extremely flexible and user friendly 'pen on a paper timecard' method.

All hail the computer revolution! Making our lives complicated through the promise of simplicity for over 50 years.