Four Different Things Called Time Tracking
Recording hours worked, billing clients, costing projects and monitoring activity are four purposes with different data, different law and different failure modes.
Explainer
Foundations
Four purposes get served by one system and pull in different directions. Separating them decides the legal analysis, the consultation requirement, and how the workforce reads the whole thing.
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Recording Hours and Monitoring Activity
One is frequently a legal duty that protects the worker. The other is workplace surveillance. The same product does both, and the default often includes the second.
Analysis
Why Timesheets Are Wrong
Most timesheet data is reconstructed from memory days later. What that does to the numbers, and which of the causes are fixable.
Analysis
What Is Worth Measuring
A short set of measures that answer real questions, and the popular ones that mostly measure compliance with the timesheet.
Reference
What It Is Actually Worth
Vendor savings figures assume recovered hours become revenue. What holds up instead, and the costs that appear after the licence.
Analysis