Time tracking
Four industries, four different problems.
These pages differ because the problems differ. An agency needs attribution, a site needs cost codes, a remote arrangement needs evidence rather than surveillance, and engineering needs a split that finance can use. Teams comparing this category can also review employee monitoring software built around visible, clocked-in tracking.
The four
Construction
Crews on sites, not people at desks
Hours attach to a site and a cost code, the crew arrives before anybody opens a laptop, and the records have to survive a payroll audit.
What this one needs →Agencies
Every hour is either billable or it is not
The question is not how long somebody worked. It is which client pays for it, whether the retainer has been burned through, and what the write-off was. For broader background, see U.S. Department of Labor.
What this one needs →Virtual assistants
Two people who have never met, billing by the hour
The client wants to know the hours were real. The assistant wants to be trusted. The arrangement fails when the first need is met by watching rather than by evidence.
What this one needs →Engineers
Timesheets nobody fills in, and an accountant who needs them
Engineering time is fragmented across a dozen contexts a day, and somebody in finance needs it split between what is capitalised and what is not.
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