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+slug: ways-to-keep-your-team-inspired
+title: Ways to Keep Your Team Inspired
+authors: sana
+tags: [Business]
+---
+
+Since the time remote working witnessed a boom, many businesses observed that is not the same as working in the office, especially when it comes to remote employee engagement as such employees have new distractions at home and feel detachment from the office. Though difficult, remote employee engagement is important. This article discusses the same and helps businesses know the ways to exploit to keep their remote team inspired.
+
+## Engaged Remote Employees – The Benefits
+
+Traditionally, employee engagement serves as a means to connect with the team. Now, it also involves motivation, friendship, loyalty, and fulfillment.
+Firstly, leverage the latest technology for remote employees’ engagement. It makes every team member feel both professionally and emotionally attached to the business, which leads to higher productivity, better results, and a healthier environment.
+Engaged employees are vital for keeping other employees motivated.
+
+## Keeping Your Remote Employees Engaged
+
+**1. Conduct Weekly Monday Meetings**
+
+Provide directions and guidance to your team that just started working remotely. Conduct weekly Monday meetings to start the week and provide your team a great viewpoint of what you expect of them.
+Meetings are also important to know about other projects' progress. Such meetings let you delegate tasks to employees while measuring their workload.
+It does not just let employees connect with you but also raise any concerns they have.
+
+**_Tips to run effective meetings_**
+
+- **Conduct Formal And Informal Meetings**
+
+Always begin your Monday meetings informally chatting and connecting. Give a few minutes to the team to inform them what they did over the weekend and whatever else is going on in their personal lives.
+This ensures your team is relaxed and comfortable before you start discussing the work and responsibilities. Also, make your employees more responsive.
+Once you break the ice between yourself and them, it will help them see you in a better light. They will count on you to help them, which helps build genuine bonds with the team.
+
+- **Do “All-Hands” Meetings**
+
+In these meetings, your whole team is gathered to talk about the topics related to them all. Such meetings remind the team of the company culture, values, direction, and planning.
+These meetings also engage the teams by giving members a chance to interact and know each other and form a friendly bond. This gives you a solid team with solid relationships. As per research, if people have their good friends at work, their productivity and engagement increase.  
+You can do these meetings at least per quarter via Google Meet.
+
+## 2. Build Interpersonal Relationships
+
+Interpersonal relationship among your teammates is the most important factor to ensure engagement. One way to ensure this is to encourage the employees to work in smaller teams or groups or even pairs. This develops a bond among the team members. This also brings more synergy and creativity to their work.
+However, while ensuring your employees create the kinds of such relationships on their own, place a solid teamwork ethos on board that they should rely on.
+
+## Consider the Time Zones
+
+One of the advantages of working across various time zones is that you can send work to your team before you go to sleep. They work on the same and send it back to me when I wake up. This makes a kind of windmill effect, advancing the project even when other members are sleeping or offline. This means the schedule of work is never dead, and the team is working towards something as a group, bit by bit.
+Another benefit of remote workers is associated with cost savings. For instance, suppose you launch a blog and want to hire someone to handle it.
+The blog itself will be cheap to run, but the manpower cost will quickly add up. If you get the manpower remotely from less expensive markets, you can save the cost by 50% or more.
+
+**Best Software for Remote Employees Engagement**
+
+## 1. Slack
+
+Slack is one of the most commonly used software to manage remote teams. It is like a virtual office and lets managers form multiple channels for various purposes to avoid unrelated work distracting team members not relevant to that purpose.
+With Slack, you can make virtual calls between team members, and set up meetings. It lets employees update what they’re working on, and call each other if they need any information or help. This tool helps keep the employees engaged because it is easy to use for all kinds of team members.
+
+## 2. Google Meet
+
+Just like Slack does voice calls, Google Meet does video calls. It has risen as the most effective video calling platform and has an easy to use interface. If you have your Gmail account, you can make a public or private call and connect to your remote teams with calls or meeting links.
+Switching from voice to video calls is easier in Google Meet. It has a built-in sharing feature and offers the best quality video and audio calls.
+The tool is lightweight and doesn’t consume much data. If your remote team is huge in number, still the voice calls will be clear.
+
+## 3. Project Management Software: Asana vs. Trello
+
+Keeping employees engaged is not only about making them feel happy and fulfilled—it’s also about keeping them focused. A 2013 study showed that up to 70% of employees in the United States were actively disengaged in their jobs, and it’s not much better elsewhere.
+
+Employee engagement also means keeping employees focused, and not just fulfilled and happy. One of the studies conducted in 2013 shows that 70% of the U.S, employees were disengaged. To avoid this, it is required to keep employees comfortably busy. It can be done by visualizing them working in the office. For this, take help from project management software like Trello and Asana.
+
+Both these tools highlight tasks as per project as well as a responsible employee. Remote workers keep the status of their tasks updated and can get assigned for other tasks in real-time.
+Trello, though, is more functional in specific tasks while Asana focuses mainly on the complete projects.
+
+**Remote Employee Engagement: At a Glance**
+
+Keep these points for your remote team:
+
+- Your team members are human. Though they are working from home, they still seek encouragement.
+- Working remotely seems lonely for many. Talk to your team members about personal life too sometimes.
+- Remote workers usually have fewer distractions. Encourage them to show more productivity.
+- Keep regular check-ins with your team.
+- Divide tasks into bite-size pieces, and ensure the team updates the status via project management tools like Trello or Asana.
+- Conduct meetings every week to set expectations for remote employees.
+- Conduct both formal and informal meetings
+- Conduct meetings with your team once per quarter
+- Encourage team collaboration and working together.
+- Use different time zones so that remote teams can keep the ball rolling without being not restricted to a single time zone.
+
+Eventually, the remote team’s effectiveness is vital to the organization's success. Engagement is a major element of effectiveness, though it goes wrong, it harms output in a manner that’s hard to quantify.
+
+With this being said, you should focus on the engagement for building and engaging the remote team. In the end, engaged employees tend to work faster and better, and make a healthier working environment too.

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+slug: how-to-keep-your-team-inspired
+title: Remote Employee Engagement - How to Keep Your Team Inspired
+authors: sana
+tags: [Business]
+---
+
+![img](/static/images/blog/blog-17/image1-new.png)
+
+Are you facing a hard time managing your remote team? Are you noticing a disinterest among your employees since the pandemic? Well, this is something every other organization is experiencing these days. Remote work allows freedom, but sometimes, it can be boring and uninspiring.
+
+However, this can pose a threat to your organization's productivity, efficiency, and success. Fortunately, we have compiled a list of effective tips to engage your employees. The below tips are acted upon and work. So, if you're interested, let's begin.
+
+## Why is it important to keep your remote employees engaged, inspired, and motivated?
+
+Here's why:
+
+## They simply need it.
+
+Remote employees usually don't interact much. And as a result, they might feel lonely, demotivated, and uninspired at times. After all, working from home or a distant place all alone is not pleasing, right? So, make sure to engage with them as much as you can.
+
+## More productive and efficient
+
+Will you be able to work actively if you're demotivated or sad? No, right? The same goes for your employees too. If you regularly interact with them, you can improve the productivity and efficiency of your employees. As a result, your company/organization will benefit from it.
+
+## Better retention
+
+A poor work environment is one of the major reasons why employees make a switch. And if your employees are demotivated or stressed because of the environment, you must do something soon.
+
+## 11 Tips to keep your remote team engaged, inspired, and productive
+
+### 1. Communicate more effectively.
+
+What if your friend hosts a party without you? You'll feel bad, right? The same goes for remote workers too. If you're not informing your remote employees of activities in the organization, they're going to feel left out.
+
+Remote workers are as important as regular ones. So, they should know about everything happening in the organization. And this can only happen if you communicate effectively. There are several tools that you can use:
+
+- Zoom
+- Skype
+- Google Hangouts
+
+The above tools can help you enhance your communication. You can send emails, but video calls have a better impact. Inform them of the necessary updates and ask them about their projects and life. This will make them feel as if they're a part of a bigger picture.
+
+### 2. Make sure that your remote workers are happy.
+
+A happy employee is a productive one. The HR professionals know this well. Keeping your employee happy is not hard. You need to ask them a few questions like:
+
+- What do they need?
+- Is there something they don’t like about the company?
+- Is there any problem they're facing?
+
+Based on what answers they give; you must offer them solutions. Sometimes, it may be the hardware, environment, schedule, or lack of training that makes them feel stressed. In such cases, you should extend your helping hand. As a result, you'll notice more engagement and productivity.
+
+### 3. Recognize the hard work
+
+Let's face it. We all like to be recognized for what we do and so do your remote workers. Maybe your remote employees have already proven their skills. However, they might not have received the recognition. This can sometimes demotivate or un-inspired the employees. And it's the last thing you would want to happen.
+
+So, make sure to recognize your employees time and again. But do not stop there. You need to make sure to recognize them in the presence of other employees. This will give your employees a sense of pride and happiness. Also, it'll motivate other employees to work as hard.
+
+Visit this link to find what tools you can use to recognize your remote employees.
+
+### 4. Set clear goals
+
+Are your remote employees aware of their short-term and long-term goals? Are they delivering what's expected from them? If not, you need to act right now. You need to understand that remote employees are like the regular ones. Without proper goals and directions, no one can achieve perfection.
+
+So, try to set goals/expectations which are mutually agreed upon. It will help your remote employees achieve better.
+
+### 5. Host regular meetings
+
+How frequently do you interact with your employees? Maybe once a week or even worse, once a month. If it's true, the lack of regular interaction could be the reason behind uninspired and demotivated employees.
+
+You must host regular meetings or interactive sessions with your employees. It could be about anything like:
+
+- Planning for the new project
+- Status of the present project
+- Discussion of formal problems
+- Discussion of informal issues
+- & More
+
+When you host regular meetings, your employees become more familiar with you. Also, it allows you to know your employees and their problems. And this is something quite essential for managing a remote team.
+
+### 6. "All hands" Meetings
+
+Maybe you're hosting regular meetings. But are all of the attendants contributing? Or is the topic of the meeting relevant to all? If not, you need to focus more on "All hands" meetings. Such meetings involve discussion on a subject common to all.
+
+"All hands" meetings often help employees to open up. Everyone will get a chance to speak. And as a result, you'll be able to build a strong relationship.
+
+### 7. Lay stress on culture
+
+Now, corporate culture is not a new thing for regular employees. As employees visit the company, work, and interact, automatically a culture is built. However, most managers never think that remote employees will need culture too.
+
+An article as per the Harvard Business Review recently emphasized the importance of culture in remote teams. Although managing culture can be hard virtually, it's quite essential. As per the article, you need to first bring remote teams together to improve the bond. And you can do that by following these activities.
+
+Once you have more remote teams interacting regularly, you'll observe a beautiful culture being developed. And as a result, your remote employees will be able to engage more.
+
+### 8. Help your team manage time.
+
+Time management is important for everyone, especially for employees working remotely. Maybe, remote employees have kids to drop to school or other household chores to complete. And if that's the case, time management becomes even more important.
+
+Help your employees with training, tools, and tips that'll help them manage time. This will show how much management cares about its employees. Also, the employees who manage their time well are productive for the company as well.
+
+### 9. Focus more on the work done, not how or when it's done
+
+Some managers behave bossily with the remote teams. They want the team to work according to their time zones. But this is something you should prohibit from doing. If your remote team has employees from different time zones, respect their time.
+
+Share the deadlines, take follow-ups, and communicate well. If they're getting the work done before the deadline, you shouldn't worry. It will help them work comfortably and productively both at the same time.
+
+### 10. Don't waste your employees' time.
+
+Yes, you need to host meetings. But you need to make sure that you’re not wasting anyone’s time. If you think your remote employees aren't required, don't unnecessarily schedule meetings. Unnecessary meetings might disengage your employees instead of engaging. So, keep unnecessary meetings at bay.
+
+### 11. Offer the necessary training.
+
+Sometimes new remote employees aren't familiar with the tools that your organization uses. So, you should offer a brief training to them. Otherwise, it can be hard for them to cope up. Also, they may never ask you on their own. So, make sure that you ask this upfront.
+
+What tools can you use for engaging and inspiring your remote employees?
+
+![img](/static/images/blog/blog-17/image2-new.png)
+
+## Slack
+
+Slack is a perfect tool for managing remote teams easily. You can create different teams and easily delegate tasks using Slack. Also, the employees can check the tasks that are assigned to them with a click. Moreover, you can set up meetings within seconds. The one-on-one meeting feature helps significantly if you want to discuss something personally. So, if you have a large remote team to manage, Slack can be a great tool.
+
+## Google Meet
+
+When it comes to hosting video meetings, what's better than Google Meet. If you and the participants have a Gmail account, you can host a meeting within seconds. If required, you can allow over one hundred participants on one call, which is quite amazing.
+
+Google Meet also comes in handy when you want to share presentations. It's because of the screen sharing feature it comes with. With a click of a button, your team can view your screen. This can help in effective communication, which will keep your employees engaged.
+
+## Wrapping up
+
+Your employees, including the remote ones, are an asset to your company. If your employees aren't motivated or engaged, your company cannot succeed. It's the reason major companies working with remote workers are opting for the above-listed tips.
+
+Here's a little summary of the above tips:
+
+- Communicate more effectively: Keep them informed and listen to them.
+- Make sure that your remote workers are happy: Ensure their happiness.
+- Recognize the hard work: Praise them for good work.
+- Set clear goals: Focus on mutually agreed expectations.
+- Host regular meetings: Interact frequently.
+- "All hands" Meetings: Discuss a topic common for all.
+- Lay stress on culture: Focus on building a positive culture.
+- Help your team manage time: use time management tools and training.
+- Focus more on the work done, not how or when it's done: Focus on results.
+- Don't waste your employees' time: Value your employees' time.
+
+If you follow and implement these, you'll witness an improvement in:
+
+- Productivity
+- Efficiency
+- Behavior
+- And Growth
+
+So, what are you waiting for? Start communicating now.

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+slug: the-reasons-behind-employee-burnout
+title: Guide for 2021 - The Reasons behind Employee Burnout & Ways to Control it
+authors: sana
+tags: [Business]
+---
+
+For a sound business growth characterized by high-quality service provision, and employee productivity is a must. One of the obstacles to this way though is employee burnout that arises due to long-term workplace stress and leads to huge costs incurred by the businesses globally. Here we highlight different means to avoid it or at least minimize it to the least level. The article discusses employee burnout’s seven key causes as well as measures to control it.
+
+## The Employee Burnout
+
+This psychological condition, related to employee physical and mental exhaustion arises due to the workplace's chronic stress. Being so prevalent nowadays, it had been categorized as an occupational phenomenon in 2019 by WHO (World Health Organization).
+
+Some professions that are more vulnerable to burnout include sales personnel, remote teams, warehouse staff, and the workforce in time-sensitive positions.
+
+However, the warning signs are the same in other roles too, some of which include:
+
+- Fatigue
+- Insomnia
+- Sadness
+- Anger
+- Irritability
+- Loss of motivation
+- Lack of enthusiasm for the job
+- Decreased productivity
+- More negative outlook.
+- More time off and absenteeism
+
+As per Flexjobs’ survey, 75% of respondents reported burnout symptoms while 40% mentioned Covid-19 as the period of their suffering from this condition. High burnout rates are alarming for the bottom line and thus, should be taken seriously.
+
+The best remedy to avoid a high burnout rate is to reduce or remove the factors that cause it.
+
+Some of the factors are discussed below.
+
+## The Top Seven (07) Employee Burnout Causes / Reasons
+
+https://www.flexjobs.com/blog/post/flexjobs-mha-mental-health-workplace-pandemic/
+
+These are the key reasons that cause employee burnout.
+
+### 1. Excessive Workload
+
+Overburdened employees tend to feel excessive stress and eventually experience burnout. Statista Survey found excessive workload as the key reason for 39% of employees’ workplace stress that led to burnout.
+
+Some of the key causes of excessive workload are:
+
+1. Less number of employees: Having short of employees can have more workload on the team that causes stress.
+
+2. Overburdening experienced employees: Experienced and skilled employees are often given more work due to quality. This can, in turn, cause burnout and affect their productivity.
+
+3. Relying on software: Management may consider software as an ultimate solution to reduce employee burden; however, software often has limitations due to which employees might end up doing more work, which Management overlooks to consider.
+
+### 2. High Expectations
+
+Setting high targets for the workforce without giving them time and space to develop required skills leads to stress and eventually burnout. This is because even after working hard, they fail to achieve what is expected from them due to a lack of skills. It causes demotivation and increases the stress level.
+Moreover, frequently changing targets and deadlines make them unable to set their priorities.
+
+### 3. Unfair Treatment
+
+Unfair treatment leads to a negative relationship between managers and employees and disengages employees from their job.
+
+Some unfair treatments examples are:
+
+- Biasness: giving priority to a specific employee or group
+- Mistreatment: Having a negative or cruel behavior with a specific employee or group
+- Unfair policies: discrimination based policies
+- Low compensation: Giving less than market-based compensation
+
+These factors lead to employee dissatisfaction, high turnover rate, and eventually burnout.
+
+https://www.statista.com/statistics/315848/employee-stress-sources-at-work-in-north-america/
+
+### 4. Harsh Attendance Policies
+
+An attendance policy that does not give space to employees’ life leads to burnout.
+
+For instance, being on time is an attendance policy that if implemented without exceptions can urge the employees to rush to work without taking their safety or health into consideration.
+
+In addition, if it does not consider sick leaves, it can affect employees' health and increase the potential for burnout.
+
+It means that attendance policies if not consistent with employees' wellbeing can lead to a high turnover rate.
+
+### 5. Negative Work Environment
+
+A supportive and collaborative working environment among managers and employees can help find solutions to unproductivity. If the managers are confrontational, the employees do not like to discuss, as they feel afraid and unsafe. It leads to stress and the possibility of burnout.
+
+Though such environments can be balanced with family and friends' support yet not many people have that support to overcome the same.
+
+### 6. Poor Activities Management
+
+Through training, formal and informal meetings, team gatherings, and other events should be organized but they should not be poorly managed to ensure they do not affect employee productivity.
+
+For instance, even a training session about client interaction, which is good for employees and company growth, should not be conducted at peak working hours.
+
+Inconvenient and inflexible timings can decrease productivity. Giving employees some freedom about their way of work empowers them and prevents a sense of helplessness.
+
+### 7. Big Decision-Making Chain
+
+Having more people in decision-making, often end up employees attending unnecessary meetings and calls that affect their work.
+This leads to mismanagement of time and employees feel stressed, which leads to burnout.
+
+For instance, a team leader forwarding the leave application for approval to HR can be distracting for the HR personnel since this approval needs to be approved by the team leader.
+
+## Top Seven (07) Ways to Prevent/Control Employee Burnout
+
+Avoiding burnout completely is not possible since it affects both personal and professional life. However, there are ways to control its effects and reduce their intensity in the long term.
+Here are the top 07 ways to control burnout.
+
+### 1. Know Performance Issues
+
+Know about the burned-out employees by assessing their performance. Such employees usually have a sudden performance decline.
+After identifying such employees, organize a personal meeting to discuss the causes, show your support and help them address their workplace stressors.
+
+### 2. Ensure Autonomy
+
+Give employees freedom and autonomy to do their work the way they can do better. For instance, setting deadlines with their consultation can prevent the burnout that could have arisen due to unrealistic deadlines.
+
+### 3. Appreciate
+
+Acknowledgment and appreciation as a part of the company's culture make employees feel esteemed and lead to a higher retention rate.
+
+You can appreciate with:
+
+- Awards
+- Bonuses
+- Free lunch vouchers
+- Discounted vacation vouchers
+- More paid leaves.
+- More days of remote work.
+- Appreciation letter
+- Verbal appreciation
+
+Appreciated employees experience more emotional strength to bear work and time pressures, which in turn, decreases burnout possibility.
+
+### 4. Maximize the Usage of Workflow Management Software
+
+The optimal software can greatly streamline business processes. Good software should be able to simplify tasks and enhance employee productivity. Some recommended software include:
+
+- Workforce Management Software (WFM)
+- Payroll Software
+- Accounting Software
+
+### 5. Encourage Informal Activities
+
+Informal activities like walking, napping, watching TV give employees a break from work and make them feel rejuvenated.
+Informal gatherings, office trips, and night outs can make them relax and reduce their stress levels.
+
+Moreover, urge them to adopt healthy lifestyles like yoga, breathing exercises, and other well-being activities.
+
+### 6. Develop a Mental Health Friendly Environment
+
+The organization's culture should consider employees’ mental health and employee wellness.
+
+Such an atmosphere help employees facing emotional issues feel accepted and understood which reduces stress and avoids worker burnout.
+
+You can do it in the following ways:
+
+- Create a wellness program like EAP (Employee Assistance Program).
+- Discuss with employees about their stress in their professional and personal life.
+- Educate them on signs of burnout and causes for the same
+- Develop sound workplace absence policy, mobile phone policy
+- Encourage vacations on time to help them maintain a work-life balance.
+- Redistribute devastating workload
+
+### 7. Utilize Productivity Management Software
+
+Productivity management tools can help you determine on time if employees are overworked and approaching the burnout stage.
+A productivity management software like Time Doctor is helpful for employees to work efficiently. They don’t need to have piled-up tasks under strict deadlines.
+
+**About Time Doctor?**
+
+Both small and big businesses use Time Doctor; an employee productivity and performance management software. The tool keeps track of employees' time spent on tasks and gives insights to both managers and employees about work productivity.
+
+It also tracks and monitors employee breaks times and lets managers schedule breaks into the employees’ timetable who are overworking to maintain their well-being.
+Moreover, Time Doctor has a Work-Life Balance Widget that can help managers and employers detect and prevent employee burnout before it happens.
+
+Through Time Doctor Widget, it is easier for managers to determine:
+
+- Excessive hours a day.
+- Additional shifts frequently.
+- Late hours.
+- On weekends.
+  With Time Doctor, you can:
+- Track idle time and let the employee be focused
+- Help employees to be on their schedules
+- Determine unproductive times via reports
+- Determine absenteeism
+- Reduce accounting team’s load via payroll feature
+
+## Final Thoughts
+
+Factors such as excessive workload, inhumane policies, and a negative work atmosphere can make employees prone to stress. Hence, ensure they do not face burnout. If you know the causes behind burnout, you can find solutions to prevent it. Using the tips given in this article, you can control the burnout rate.
+
+To start, deploy an employee-oriented software like Time Doctor and start monitoring your employees’ potential burnout rate.

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+slug: time-tracking-for-construction-industry
+title: Time Tracking for Construction Industry
+authors: sana
+tags: [Business]
+---
+
+Mobile time tracking in construction and field service has risen in popularity. This is because, in this industry, it is difficult to avoid losing money. Time tracking serves as the best solution to address this challenge.
+
+![img](/static/images/blog/blog-18/image1.png)
+
+## Time Doctor for Construction & Field Service
+
+Usually, time tracking and management apps are used in the construction industry for time tracking purposes.
+
+Time Doctor serves as a great time tracking tool for this industry. This app has been built with such industry in consideration. The designers of this app know the pain of paper timesheets and the employee scheduling process.
+
+Through Time Doctor, clocking-in and clocking-out of the job site are much easier and accurate than manual timesheets. The data gives useful insights into job costing and payroll. Construction businesses can now avoid losing money to time rounding and theft.
+
+## Easy and Accurate Job Costing
+
+Time Doctor gives much more than just time tracked. It is a great job-costing tool for your workforce. Workers select the job and task they are assigned with and you always know where they are. You can see all on electronic timesheets and make edits as required. The reports can be printed as per your construction business needs. It gives you the most accurate job costing.
+
+## Why Invest in Time Tracking App?
+
+If you want accurate time tracking in your construction business, turn to Time Doctor. Time Doctor’s work on both Apple and Android devices so you can use it easily. Your employees just need a smartphone in their pocket to use it. Even if the employees do not have a smartphone, the app gives the option to the supervisor to punch the clock on their workers’ behalf.
+
+## 24/7 access
+
+Access your web dashboard from any device with internet connectivity. Irrespective of your location, be updated on time schedules and workers' productivity.
+
+## Simple Scheduling
+
+Scheduling phone calls, emails, and text messages are hectic. Employee scheduling in Time Doctor is as easy as taking a job or employee onto the calendar. You can set the schedule very quickly and easily. You can always change the schedule.
+How?
+Just drag and drop the change, then inform everyone concerned just with a click of a single button.
+Selected employees will get an instant notification on their phones. Moreover, they will remain updated on their schedule changes.
+
+## Embedded with GPS
+
+Time Doctor is a GPS Time Tracking app highly useful for construction and field services. This mobile app is location-aware, so you will get location data with time punches. The GPS feature sends you location information while employees are on the clock.
+With this feature, use the power of geofence time tracking. By putting a geofence around a job site, your employees can be reminded right from their phone to clock in or out when they enter or leave.
+
+## Time Tracking, Payroll, and Accounting – All Together
+
+If you use Accounting & payroll software like QuickBooks, Sage, etc. you would have more value from Time Doctor. Time Doctor integrates with accounting software. Time punches from Time Doctor are entered into your accounting software with the click of a button. All of your data is right where you need it without having to enter it again. Payroll and job costing have never been this much easier before.

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+slug: tracking-benefits-in-the-light-of-users-feedback
+title: The Time Tracking Case- Tracking’s Benefits in the Light of Users’ Feedback
+authors: sana
+tags: [Business]
+---
+
+Time is passing fast, even if you do not do anything it passes. Hence, spend time wisely and avoid wasting it since it will not come back. How can you spend your time in the right way? You can do it by tracking it!
+
+![img](/static/images/blog/blog-19/image1.png)
+
+## What is a time tracking?
+
+Time tracking is all about observing and noting down your daily tasks and their deadlines.
+Professionally, you can do it as an employee to track your working hours and tasks completions; you can do it for billing purposes, being a freelancer, for instance.
+Traditionally, employee time tracking used to be done via swipe cards, clock-in & clock-out, and geo-location tracking methods. Now, time tracking apps like Time Doctor have replaced those.
+Using such apps, time can be tracked either via a timesheet or via a timer.
+
+## Timesheets
+
+In this method, you add your tasks and time spent on them at the end of the day, or a week or a month. Daily tracking is recommended. It is a simple method and is free from stress given by a timer.
+
+## Timer
+
+The timer is started with the start of your work and ended when you are done with your task. It more precisely records working hours while in timesheets approximate times are added.
+
+## Importance of time tracking
+
+- Tracking makes billing and payroll processing easier and efficient.
+
+It means you can know billable and non-billable hours.
+If you are a small or medium-scale business and have a strict budget, time tracking keeps you organized and under budget. This data can also help you determine your product or service's price.
+
+Freelancers and clients need accurate billing and time tracking helps to calculate both hourly and fixed rates for projects.
+
+For the hiring manager, it gives insight into where the money is going.
+
+- Gives useful data
+
+When you enter data every day, you end up with a lot of data – in this case, with useful information you can utilize in various ways. Firstly, you will see how much your team is working and what they are working on, as well as the amount of time it usually takes to complete a task.
+The data entered every day gives useful insights like how productive your team is and how much time they take to complete a task. This helps to make improvements.
+
+- Improves productivity
+
+Time tracking prevents you from procrastination since it keeps you focused and avoids wasting time.
+
+- Tracking time is the best solution
+
+Time tracking helps you avoid wasting time on social media as you can constantly see your daily activities being tracked. It makes you more accountable and keeps you away from distractions. It helps improve your productivity.
+
+- Great for students
+
+Students having exam season coming can make the most of their time via time tracking. They can be free from the sudden change in routine and keep motivated to complete their preparations.
+
+- prevents multitasking
+
+It keeps you away from unnecessary multitasking especially when you are at work.
+If you are doing a task that needs your 100% focus, and you are doing another task too, then you will have both incomplete and end up frustrated. Doing one task at a time is more efficient.
+
+## Users’ Feedback for using time tracking software
+
+Laura Vanderkam, the writer of the books 168 Hours and I Know How She Does It, says
+"If you want to lose weight, you need to write down what you eat. It same thing with time. If you want to spend time better, you need to figure out where it is going. Maybe something you thought was a problem is not. Maybe something you never even considered is taking a lot more time than you thought.”
+
+## Her Freelance Experience
+
+According to Laura, the time tracking apps enhanced her quality of life, since it allowed her to do her job instead of:
+
+- being concern about the payment from her client
+- feeling guilty for not working enough
+- easting time
+- procrastinating
+  She could see her idle time that helped her in making changes in her daily work life.
+
+She was able to set clear priorities and kept her on track, avoiding a need for extra hour’s work that helped her mental health too.
+
+## Exact time tracking also benefit the clients
+
+Laura’s clients were happy as they could see clear progress through reports that also made communication easier.
+
+Here are some other users’ feedback:
+
+"As a graphic designer, it is important for me to provide my clients with the accurate amount of work that I did, broken down into tasks and projects so that they can see what they are paying for. With Clockify this has become less of a burden for me and allows me to invest more of my time into what I do best rather than paperwork or counting hours.” – Elijah D, Graphic designer
+
+“Time Doctor is very easy to use & very quickly anybody can pick it up – useful when onboarding a new employee. Enables effective management of housekeeping tasks for team leads & managers – like attendance, timesheets, etc. Easy tool to bill the hours worked & review time taken on projects and tasks through reports. There is a mobile app as well which enables you to track time spent on calls as well – especially when you are a consultant or advisory services provider and spend a lot of time on the phone. You can set up time tracking for specific clients, projects, tasks and assign it to specific employees – this is very granular and comprehensive.” – Subash B, Co-founder of a marketing and advertising company.
+
+## Can time tracking be a bad idea?
+
+It can be, sometimes.
+Time tracking may not be useful for all jobs and all tasks. For instance, a freelancer who is good at time management and is paid per project and not per hour may not need time tracking.
+Here are some situations where time tracking can be a bad idea:
+
+If you feel bad with a sense of being monitored or your privacy violated
+Some employees may take time tracking as being watched with no concern of their privacy, which may affect the working environment as well as their performance.
+
+## What to do?
+
+Develop trust with your employees and a culture where all feel being valued. Explain to them the benefits of using the new software.
+
+- If it’s stressful
+
+Time tracking may sound boring and should not make you tensed by adding extra workload.
+
+## What to do?
+
+The employer should provide clear guidelines for using the software. Start with audit entries every 2 or 3 weeks to ensure all information is being entered and tracked properly. It also helps to fix the errors sooner than later to avoid any extra stress in the future.
+
+While selecting a time tracking app for your company, go for the one having an intuitive interface, is fast and simple to use. Freelancers should also select based on these factors.
+
+Since doing a job is often hard and tensed enough, the goal of the time tracking apps is to simplify people's lives and not complicate them more.
+
+“In terms of feel and use, Time Doctor has many integrations and has a simple, sleek, and intuitive interface regardless of what supported device or browser you decide to use it on. This is especially true for its user-friendly, easy-to-navigate web app which can be accessed from anywhere for viewing of your and your current team’s progress.” – DeskTime.
+
+Also, think of this question:
+
+- is there any positive reinforcement for someone being efficient and doing their job well, or only negative consequences for the lack of productivity?
+
+If your time tracking routine involves trying to remember what you did 3 days ago, then it is probably not effective. Human memory is not the most reliable narrator you can possibly have.
+
+## What to do?
+
+Set an alarm that will go off every weekday at a certain time to remind you to either start recording time or to track all your tasks in the timesheet.
+Time Doctor also gives an option to set a reminder to start the timer.
+
+## Final Thoughts
+
+Time tracking, if done regularly and via the best time tracking app like Time Doctor, helps improve productivity especially for frustrating tasks like billing and project costing. It gives useful insights for improving your business or project management.
+To use the time in a wise and the best way, know how you are spending it and keep it in the right way. The great thing is that with time tracking apps like Time Doctor, time tracking has become much simpler and easier to do.

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