Time recording is becoming unsexy and time clocks have finally gone to the grave. Instead, the focus is on trust. Flexibility in terms of working hours is being emphasised. This is a welcome development as it initially gives you a feeling of integrity and confidentiality. However, the documentation of Working hours still makes sense in some respects.
Overtime is only available with time recording
Overtime is an old but good example. Despite the lack of time recording, most companies still have fixed working hours. Of course, in many offices today you no longer have to clock in at nine sharp, but there are still time constraints. These are adapted to the extent that you can leave the workplace earlier. However, you can also stay longer if necessary. Or there is the E-mailthat you answer quickly at the weekend. Things that are dealt with quickly accumulate in the end. However, this overtime remains a feeling that employees have. After all, the management can't know anything about it because the time is not recorded anywhere. Especially in the Service This is a major issue in the automotive industry, as employees often work remotely and have to respond flexibly to customers.
Time recording does not mean control
In this respect, time recording is not a means of control - because you can also sit idle for hours. Rather, the personnelManagement give them the opportunity to recognise overloads in good time. Of course, there are also employees who speak up when they are overloaded. However, many are unable to estimate how much work needs to be done in how much time. Especially in flexible fields of work, where everyone works independently on different tasks and there are few opportunities for comparison. If a time overload becomes apparent, you can seek a dialogue. Perhaps the person likes to surf the net for an hour at lunchtime or takes a longer lunch break and stays longer in the evening.
Time recording as performance recording
Another advantage of time recording is accounting. Here, time recording becomes the Performance recording. Relevant for services or when projects are billed on a time and material basis, because customers like to have extra requests, orders are protracted due to uncalculated expenses and projects change during their execution. Of course, in most cases, employees are also required to document their workload in terms of time. In stressful phases, however, something usually falls by the wayside. Good luck (financially) for the customer, bad luck for your company and everyone involved.
Furthermore, time recording is a good source of data for calculations in this respect. If you realise that a project is taking too much time, you can renegotiate the conditions with the customer or recalculate processes. The survey is also useful for future quotations.
Obligation to record time
A "mini" fact that also speaks in favour of time recording is 450-euro jobs. Here, companies are even obliged to document working hours. A simple timesheet is sufficient, but if you have a lot of mini-jobbers, it makes sense to be able to calculate their working hours as a resource in order to check the profitability of the company as a whole.
Time recording structures companies
In fact, time recording, which is so frowned upon today, can once again become a really popular tool. After all, recording working hours is neither good nor bad. It is up to the management to decide how they want to use it. As a means of control or as an aid and relief for healthy working hours, Task management and data source for business calculations. Of course, time recording can also initially lead to processes having to be restructured and some employees having to be paid more. In the long term, of course, this makes sense for healthy growth and the competitiveness of the company. After all, everyone ends up investing time in their work - whether documented or not.
Software integration
A good way to integrate time recording in a modern way is to use software integration. Most companies today work digitally in one form or another and data exchange takes place via systems such as ERP solutions takes place. This can also be an order-related performance recording. The times recorded for orders and/or projects also add up to the (productive) working time. In addition, activities can be tracked and identified over time.
Also mobile: time and travel expense recording, including booking to the project
MARIProject grants extremely variable Time DocumentaryYou can book certain services for a project or determine pure attendance time, both in the office on your workplace computer and on the move via the Internet, smartphone or tablet (Android, iOS).
The same applies to recording travel expenses: you record your travel expenses on the go with your smartphone, for example, photograph the receipts, assign both to the project and settle all costs together internally (expense report).
Thanks to the integration of time and travel expense recording into the overall system, costs are taken into account promptly in both billing and analyses.
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