As you seek to make your business more productive, you can run into efficiency roadblocks. You know how you spend your own time, but how do you teach employees about the specifics of prioritization and show them where they’re wasting time? Looking for an actionable solution, I asked eight members of Young Enreprenur Council (YEC) the following:
What is your preferred tool for tracking how much time employees spend on specific tasks and why?
Their best answers are below:
1. Harvest
In professional services, it’s very important that everyone understands how their time is spent. At Unleashed Technologies, we use Harvest so that individualscan understand how they are spending time and if that strategy is effective. Many team members are often shocked at the time they spend on items that don’t provide real value. – Michael Spinosa, Unleashed Technologies
2. Freshbooks
have many subcontractors, and so we often use Freshbooks to time-track and invoice. It also helps me budget folks’ time against client budgets. It’s super easy to learn for everyone (most already use it) and free or inexpensive. – Adam Steele, The Magistrate
3. TimeCamp
We’ve been utilizing TimeCamp for the last year or so, and the team has had a lot of positive things to say about it. It’s easy to input time, and it syncs with our project management/CRM software, allowing us to easily input time on tasks that have been assigned. It also provides great reporting and allows you to assign users with different roles. – Kevin Getch, Webfor
4. Timedoctor
We are an IT company and use Timedoctor on each programmer’s PC. It captures the time by task, inactivity time, clock-in/clock-out time, mouse and keyboard activity and screenshot. Best of all, it’s only nine dollars per user. – Piyush Jain, SIMpalm
