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Time Tracking Software Articles

The Perfect Blend: How to Schedule Your Coffee Baristas Like a Pro

Something’s brewing!

by Alexandra Vazquez

Time Tracking Software Glossary Terms

Billable Hours

Billable hours are time spent working on tasks that are chargeable to the client. Learn the best practices for incorporating billable hours into business.

by Holly Landis

Time Tracking

Time tracking is the process of employees logging work over a fixed period of time. Learn about time tracking for hourly workers and billable projects.

by Holly Landis

Kanban

Kanban is a work methodology that monitors work in progress in a visual, board-like manner. Learn more about kanban and how to implement it properly.

by Whitney Rudeseal Peet

Policy Compliance Management

Policy and compliance management is a process to centrally manage standards, policies, and internal control processes cross-mapped to external regulatory standards. Learn more about policy and compliance management best practices and the associated benefits.

by Sagar Joshi

Time Tracking Software Discussions

Question on: Traqq

Are there any concerns that false acitvity function could fail? Today, in online jobs, we often do works that need automatic, freqent action that may seem like false activity.

Thank you for bringing up this important discussion! It's absolutely vital to establish full trust and transparency when it comes to work and time tracking. Traqq time tracker is one of the only applications that is equipped with an anti-cheating algorithm. Traqq's tracker detects falsely generated activities, such as redundant mouse movements, power clicks, or software-generated activities. All of these are then eliminated from the total productivity score of the employee. This ensures 100% accurate tracking with full transparency that all generated activities are genuine!

Answered: Kash Borna on April 11, 2022

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Question on: TriNet PEO

TriNet considers cancer diagnosis bad business?

Why did TriNet send a letter to terminate its relationship with my company the month after we informed them one of my employees was diagnosed with cancer and would require expensive medical treatments? It's curious because (1) I have spoken with two other companies who had the same experience, and (2) at the same time, TriNet's aggressive but clueless salespeople were contacting me to sell us on their PEO unaware we were already a customer. (Yes, I can provide documentation and references.)

Dan you are better off without them. They make more mistakes than you might think. It doesn't surprise me; TriNet only cares about the $$$ not about the people.

Answered: Carmen Strokofski on November 16, 2021

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Question on: Toggl Track

How do I best use Toggl for seamless time tracking when working on 2 laptops and my phone at the same time while using the Toggle button, web and desktop version?

I find myself clicking on 3 different screens to extend idle time from one or the other, but I work on all so have the program on all. I am also trying to incorporate the use of the Toggl Button in order to time myself for getting more done in the same amount of time, but for some reason can't yet figure out how to incorporate it effectively. Also, what are the advantages of the desktop version vs the web version? The web version seems to be complete except for the web page time tracking. Thank you!

It's a great question. Short version is, while it's great to have Toggl on all platforms, and it's great that they automagically sync up (eventually), you can definitely get yourself sideways. Say you start timing something on your laptop, walk away, start something else, realize you want to time it, and pull out your phone. I usually have to wait upwards of 30 seconds for the phone based Toggl to update its status to match the timer on my laptop. If I don't wait for it to sync and start timing the new thing right away, it all SORT OF sorts itself out, but I inevitably have to go back later and clean up the time entries. My recommendation is to prefer one of them over all others and use it preferentially -- only using the others when the primary one is inaccessible. Bottom line: time tracking at ALL requires discipline. Therefore, being disciplined about which version of the tool you default to, should be not that much harder -- and frankly might make your time tracking habit stronger since you're being more consistent.

Answered: Thomas Cox on May 5, 2020

I am sorry, I cannot help. I use toggl with a macbook air and an iphone and it works fine. Sometimes, it takes the sync lags a bit, but it catches up.

Answered: David Ledgerwood on May 5, 2020

Are you working on 3 different projects that you are timing independently of each other? I work on multiple screens but on the same project, so I just use Toggl on one of the computers to time what I am doing. I have only used the web version - it is complete enough for what I need so I have never checked out the desktop version. I don't use the Toggl Button - maybe that is not on the web based version? So I can't answer that question. Sorry.