UGH. That is going to be clunky as all get out. I wonder how many companies are going to find themselves on the wrong side of state laws that require employees to be paid in full by payday. I remember my employer explaining that direct deposit was a wonder for them after 9/11 as those employees with direct deposit required no special actions as if their pay-stub was a few day late no legal problems but they had to hire special express ground shipments for those who received paper checks.
My employer is having employees sign in and out with the time they reported to work, took a lunch, left for the day, etc. On a clipboard. At the end of the day one of the site managers must take all that information put it into an Excel spreadsheet that includes the employee name total number of hours worked in the department they are assigned to an email that to the corporate HR office. The HR people that have to search the payroll database for that person in that department to figure out their hourly rate.
Then, they must put the employee ID number, hourly rate and I was worked in a separate Excel spreadsheet and send that off to someone else who will somehow find a way to issue checks. Now, they will be doing this for easily tens of thousands of employees. I see no way that there’s actually possible in the short time they have.