Late minutes
Late minutes are the minutes between a person's scheduled start and the moment they clocked in. They are counted only when the arrival falls outside the allowed window. Four minutes past a strict start is four late minutes. An early arrival records none.
Counting late days treats a two-minute slip and a two-hour one as the same event. Counting minutes does not. That is the whole reason both measures exist.
The difference shows over a month. Ten arrivals at three minutes past is a parking problem. One arrival at 90 minutes past is a conversation. Both show as late days. Only the minute total separates them. A manager reading day counts alone will speak to the wrong person.
Summed across a team, late minutes also become something concrete. Hours of cover that were not there when the phone rang.
There is a trap in that total. One person with a single very late morning can outweigh a dozen colleagues drifting slightly. So read the spread first. A tidy median with one long tail is a different problem from everybody running five minutes behind.
Where this shows up in PeopleMuster
Late Minutes is a column on the PeopleMuster attendance table. The minutes are counted against that person's assigned shift, not one company-wide start time.
Questions people ask
Do late minutes include the grace period?
No. The grace period comes off first. If the policy allows ten minutes and somebody arrives twelve past, the record shows two late minutes, not twelve.
Can late minutes be negative for an early arrival?
No. Early arrivals record zero. Letting early days cancel late days would hide the pattern the measure exists to show.
Are late minutes deducted from working hours?
Not automatically. Late minutes and working hours are separate figures. Whether one affects the other is an employer policy question, and it varies widely.