JPH09288751A - Working management card - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To perform job management by strengthening the management ability of a working management card. SOLUTION: For this working management card provided with a memory function 4, an interface 8 and the input function 6 of at least the time of starting work and finishing work, a communication function 3 is provided. Or, the finishing time is controlled by signals received by the communication function 3 further additionally.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a management card for managing work of employees and improving efficiency of work.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A conventional example of a work management card will be described. There is a so-called time card as a typical employment management card. A time recorder, that is, a device that prints the current time and each mode of starting and ending work with ink, is installed at the entrance of the company employee, and the employee inserts his or her time card into the time recorder to print the time and mode. I managed the employment by letting it. By posting the work record of the time card to the ledger every January and getting approval from the boss, the work in January is recognized and the salary is paid. Recently, magnetic card-type work management cards are widely used. A card of the size of a business card, which is made of plastic and partially provided with a magnetic band, is generally called a magnetic card. A photo of the employee's face, employee number, and the validity period of the card are printed on this magnetic card, which is distributed to employees as an employee ID card, which must be presented at the time of entry and exit, and a magnetic card reader is installed at the employee entrance and exit. , Start and end work are managed in the same manner as in the case of the above time recorder. In this case, the information read by the magnetic card reader is stored in the main computer, and the results collected every month are printed out and distributed to the person himself / herself. FIG. 3 shows an example of a conventional magnetic card type work management card. The employee management card (1) has an employee display (2) such as the employee's name, and the magnetic strip (20) has employee information such as the employee's name recorded by a magnetic pattern carrying. There is.

[0003]

The above-mentioned conventional work management card has a problem that work management can be performed only within the range where the time recorder or the magnetic card reader is installed. For example, when a salesperson goes directly to a customer to carry out a sales activity and then returns home after the end of business, it is difficult for the boss of the company or workplace to grasp the employment status. There is no choice but to rely on the self-report of the salesperson. If the salesperson does not go to the customer at the appointed time without contacting his / her workplace or customer, he / she will not be able to respond to the inquiries from the customer satisfactorily. Become. If the sales person is involved in an unexpected accident at the time of inquiring from the customer, it is often impossible to find out his / her fate, and the relationship of trust with the customer is compromised. An example of frequently occurring troubles is due to inaccuracies in the "scheduled return time" of the sales person. When a customer calls the sales person in charge by telephone, the assistant is generally received when the sales person is absent. The customer often requests the assistant to call back from the sales person in charge, but in that case, it is expected that there will be a return call at the scheduled return time of the sales person in charge. If no contact is made when the scheduled return time is changed due to circumstances, trouble will occur with the expected customer. It can be said that the above two cases show the difficulty and necessity of employment management for employees who have gone out. In the case of a maintenance serviceman for copying machines, the serviceman rushes to the location of the copier to be repaired requested by the customer to the workplace, and after repairing, goes to repair another copier. There is. In copying machines that are very close to each other, it is wasteful for the service person to return to his or her workplace once. Recently, it has been attempted to reduce the waste by an operation mode in which the service person requests the next instruction from the workplace when the repair of the copy machine at a certain site is completed, but sometimes the inquiry is forgot. Therefore, the waste is not eliminated.

[0004]

The employment management card of the present invention has a communication function in addition to having a memory function, an interface, and at least a start function, an end work, and a time input function. The closing time is controlled by a signal received by the communication function.

[0005]

The employment management card of the present invention can manage employment by at least having a key for inputting the start or end state of work, and has a memory function and an interface to store information and information about a specific device. In addition to the exchange, the communication function is provided so that the information can be communicated remotely. This makes it possible to clarify the previously unclear work schedule and make detailed instructions. By having a communication function as well, the operation for the employee's employment management can also be the business communication, so that the business communication can be surely made in detail. Further, when the closing time is controlled by the signal received by the communication function, the responsible time for performing the work can be clarified.

[0006]

FIG. 1 shows an embodiment relating to claim 1 of the present invention. The employment management card (1) has a function of a mobile phone, that is, a function of transmitting and receiving information as a communication function (3). A memory function (4) for accumulating employee information such as employee name and employee number, working history and schedule information of the employee, and a detachable database memory (5) are also provided. The database memory is, for example, a railway timetable in Tokyo or a layout of rental copy machines. When a salesperson goes out to Tokyo, the train timetable in Tokyo is attached to the management card. In the case of the maintenance service person of the copying machine, the arrangement information of the copying machine to be supported is attached to the card. When the employee is a worker on the manufacturing line of the factory, the detachable database memory is a manual corresponding to the manufacturing process of the employee. As the input key (6), a numeric keypad for entering numerical values, a month / day time selection key, a “¥” key that is the amount of money, and a return (scheduled) time that is the scheduled time to return to the workplace from the start or end of work or from outside the office In addition to the input keys for the status such as or bounce, and the schedule input key, in addition to setting instruction keys such as forwarding contacts such as telephone calls to yourself to the assistant left at work, when using the communication function, external data There is a send key for sending to and a confirmation key as a function of replying to the contact that the contact from the outside has been confirmed. Scroll keys on the LCD screen (7) (represented as convex and downward convex mountains in Fig. 1)
It has. Further, it is provided with an interface (8) which is a connecting portion for exchanging signals with an external device. As the interface, a PCMCI standard IC
It is a card interface. The interface may be a combination of a light emitting diode and a light receiving diode for near infrared communication.

An example of using the work management card of claim 1 of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 will be described. A specific example of use when the employment management card in FIG. 1 is applied to a salesman (Mr. Ko) will be described. Mr. Kou always wears the work management card and acts. The behavior of one day will be illustrated. I wake up at 6 am, get dressed, leave my home at 7 o'clock, and head to the company. At the time of leaving home, Mr. Ko pushes the "commute to work" (not shown in FIG. 1) button from the input keys of the management card. Mr. Ko arrives at the nearest station in 10 minutes on foot, takes a train for 1 hour, then walks for 10 minutes to reach the company. Mr. Ko, when he enters the building of the company (the time at this time is 8:20), presses "start" from the input keys of the management card. Since the start time of this company is 8:30, it is 8:20 when the "start" key is pressed.
Although it is not recognized that the work has started at the time of minute, it is considered that the start of work is automatically started at the time of 8:30 by pressing the "start work" key. During the commuting, the management card automatically informs the head office or workplace of the state by communication. The existing NTT wireless network is used as a communication means. Once inside the company premises, the communication method is switched to the company's own communication network. A wireless transmitter is attached to the gate of the ticket gate so as to recognize arrival at the nearest station. The output signal of the wireless transmitter has the effect of transmitting the station name, the management card number, and Mr. Ko's name information to the headquarters or the workplace by detecting the output signal of the management card. At work, the above-mentioned commuting progress of Mr. Ko is displayed on the display, and it is possible to accurately grasp the expected arrival time of Mr. Ko to respond to a sudden contact from a customer. I will return the story to Mr. Ko at the start of work at 8:30. First of all, Mr. Kou wants to complete the documents at his office desk and hope for the meeting from 10:00 am. Since it is a very important meeting, Mr. Kou presses the assistant key on the management card so that the meeting will not be disturbed by telephone. By pressing this key, all calls to Mr. Ko will be handled by the assistant at work, and Mr. Ko will not have to answer the phone unless there is a special emergency. When the meeting ends at 11 o'clock, Mr. Ko releases the assistant reception mode by pressing the assistant key again and receives the call by himself. Mr. Kou will move around the company from 11:30 to work. During this time, a telephone call from the outside rings the doorbell of Mr. Kou's desk phone, but if nobody picks up the phone, he rings the management card worn by Mr. Kou. The corresponding extension number is displayed as "16" on the liquid crystal screen. Mr. Ko can receive a call to himself by pressing the extension "16" with his handset and picking up the handset. If Mr. Ko's response is slow and the response is not made even after ringing the doorbell eight times, the message tape to the effect that he is out of his seat is activated at that time to inform the other party of the call. . The same applies to extension telephones. The private branch exchange actually performs the above-described operations to realize the above-mentioned telephone transfer and remote reception.

At the company where Mr. Ko works, from 0 p.m. to 1 p.m., it is a lunch break and is not treated as business hours. Therefore, Mr. Ko sets "lunch break" (not shown in FIG. 1) with the input key of his management card. Then, the phone that was called to Mr. Ko, after ringing the telephone at work twice, activates the tape that tells the other party that "lunch break" is given.
If you want to be contacted during lunch break, cancel the "lunch break". When going out for business, the management card of the present invention functions like a pager. That is, the tape requesting the key input of the contents is automatically rotated, and the message input accordingly is displayed on the card. Mr. Ko will visit the customer (Mr. Otsu) from 1:30. I left the company at 1:30 and took an hour to arrive at Mr. Otsu's office. First, when you leave the company, enter the "return (planned) time". When you go home directly
Enter the key. The trace of the outing trip to Mr. Otsu is performed almost the same as commuting.

A method of using the work management card of the present invention when purchasing a ticket when going out will be described. Purchase a ticket for the train to the nearest station of Mr. Otsu's office at the ticket machine (9). At this time, the interface (8) of the work management card (1) is inserted into the slot (10) of the ticket vending machine. The work management card also has a communication function (3), a memory function (4), and a liquid crystal screen (7). The ticket vending machine includes a coin slot (11), a display panel (12), a destination input key (13), and a ticket issuing slot (14). Mr. Ko puts 310 yen as a ticket price to the nearest station to Mr. Otsu in the coin slot and selects the nearest station from the destination input keys and presses it. Then, the destination is displayed on the display panel and a ticket comes out from the ticket issuing port. At this time, the employment management card reads the destination and the ticket price through the interface, notifies the workplace and the headquarters through the communication function, and is also stored in the memory function. This information will be used later when paying for transportation expenses. If you buy a ticket at a ticket vending machine that does not support the interface of the employment management card, you can trace the behavior of Mr. It is also possible to give detailed action instructions from the workplace while grasping Mr. Kou's current position. If Mr. Kou's employment management card has a position recognition function such as GPS (Global Positioning System), more detailed instructions can be given.

An embodiment of an employment management card corresponding to claim 2 of the present invention will be described. If the meeting with Mr. Otsu is longer than originally planned, Mr. Ko will correct the return time (scheduled) time with the input key of his management card and send it to the workplace and the headquarters. Since this correction can be easily made by key input, it can be easily sent if there is a short meeting. Due to the unexpectedly prolonged meeting with Mr. Otsu, Mr. Ko changed the schedule so that he would go home directly without returning to the office. When the change card is sent to the workplace and the headquarters by using the management card, the liquid crystal screen is displayed with respect to a matter which may cause inconvenience due to not returning to the workplace. Mr. Ko looks at the contents, and if he decides that he must return to the workplace, he changes his schedule again, sends the time to return to work (planned) and returns to work. If it is determined that it is not necessary to return to the workplace by the above-mentioned determination, the "end of work" key is pressed and a route for returning home is taken. However, there is a possibility that a customer or a colleague will be contacted until the latest displayed time of the previously scheduled return time entered. Due to the responsibility of displaying the estimated time to return to work, Mr. Ko should respond to them even while they are returning home, and in some cases even after returning home. For this reason, Mr. Kou's employment management card is configured to transfer business matters until the time mentioned above. When the scheduled return time has passed, business communication will be automatically cut off.

The embodiment has been described above in the case where the employment management card of the present invention is applied to a salesperson. When the maintenance service person of the copying machine uses the card of the present invention, the past repair history of each copying machine, that is, the chart of each copying machine is provided as a removable database memory ((5) in FIG. 1). In the above ticket vending machine example,
By making a contract with the railway company and Mr. Ko's company in advance,
It is possible to buy a ticket without inserting coins, that is, cashless, simply by inserting the employment management card into the slot and inputting the destination.

[0012]

By using the employment management card of the present invention, it is possible to save labor in the work management and to simplify the work itself such as the adjustment of transportation expenses.

[Brief description of drawings]

1 is a front view of an embodiment corresponding to claim 1 of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a front view showing a method of using the work management card of the present invention. FIG. 3 shows a conventional example of an employment management card.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 is an employment management card, 2 is an employee display, 3 is a communication function,
4 is a memory function, 5 is a removable database memory, 6
Is an input key, 7 is a liquid crystal screen, 8 is an interface, 9
Is a ticket vending machine, 10 is a slot, 11 is a coin slot, 1
Reference numeral 2 is a display panel, 13 is a destination input key, 14 is a ticket issuing slot, and 20 is a magnetic band.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A work management card having a memory function, an interface, and at least a start work function, a finish work function, and a time input function, the work management card having a communication function. 2. The work management card according to claim 1, wherein the end time is controlled by a signal received by the communication function.