3 Benefits of Automated Timetracking

Gaps, gaps, everywhere!

If you rely on yourself – or your team – to manually keep track of all activity throughout the day, you cannot avoid a timesheet with gaping holes in it.  People forget to record tasks they work on, and what you end up with is an incomplete record at best, and a useless “timesheet” with just a few tasks recorded at best. This is where automated timesheets come into play, helping to ensure that every minute is accounted for without requiring constant manual input.

Switch to automated timetracking and all that changes for the better! From the moment the PC/Mac is turned on, to the moment you turn off your device and leave for the day – and beyond* – all activity will be logged and there is concern that anything at all will be lost.

* Some automated activity trackers even offer mobile apps
that let users build a continuous 24 hour-record.

Again, a clear winner, if you ask us.  But let’s check out tracking accuracy below and see if there is, in fact, an option superior to automated time tracking.

Let’s ask the tough question: how accurate is your timekeeping?

If you let yourself, or your team, keep a time record manually – no matter if they use paper & pencil or an online glorified stopwatch -, any such timesheet is bound to be filled with errors:

• Employees will forget tasks they worked on;
• Break will get dropped;
• Lawyers (and others) will inflate their hours; and
• Inefficient task completion will be hidden by recording shorter durations than actually occured.

Enter automated time tracking.  You guessed it: any automated activity tracker is bound to record all activity, not only in extreme detail, but accurately.  Nothing gets lost, and nothing gets added that shouldn’t be there.