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How Time Tracking Improves Productivity
Businesses in the digital age run on time tracking. Time is the globally accepted universal
currency to measure efficiency, productivity and outcomes.
Over time, technology has brought to light the significance of measuring various metrics to
account for desired outcomes, profitability and improved work-life balance.
Not only that, our understanding of productivity and effectiveness has also seen radical shifts in
terms of quality over quantity, outputs vs outcomes and multitasking vs time blocking.
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Why Time Tracking is important?
Gone are the days when time tracking was done just to capture the time spent by employees at
work and seen more as an employee monitoring measure.
And today it is all about measuring:
The above metrics provide a holistic view of how healthy our business and projects are. It’s a
cumulative approach that can then be broken to individuals to identify:
Execution bottlenecks
Work habits
Workflows & processes
Following which proper remediation actions and improvements can be planned.
But before that let us take a look at common challenges that disrupt our daily plans and
activities.
Resource
Utilization
Billable vs
non-billable
hours
Identifying
resource
availability
Total project
hours vs
spent hours
Planned vs
actual hours
important of
Time Tracking
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How to prevent Time Tracking Challenges?
Throughout the day we work on multiple tasks demanded by our role within the organization
and they do take away precious time from activities that are crucial to our key goals and
objectives.
Managing all such “necessary evils”, planning them right and keeping them to the minimum is a
must to ensure optimal productivity.
Administrative Activities
Meetings with the clients, teams and executives are necessary. So are email management,
collaboration, status reviews, approval requests etc.
The key is not to get carried