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Time Tracking in a Remote Work World
by Adam Torkildson
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November 7, 2022
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For decades a paper timesheet has been the number one way for employees to log their hours. It keeps things simple, has employees doing the work, and ensures that people are on top of their hours. Unfortunately, for many businesses, thousands or millions of dollars can be lost to mistakes in these time sheets. While simplistic, it falls for the same lack of efficiency that all human-driven solutions do.

This issue has only become exacerbated by the rise in the world of remote work. Remote work, something that dominated in 2020, is predicted to make up 22% of work by 2025. This is no small percentage of workers, and this has no small set of effects. Remote workers report being much happier and much more engaged than physical workers. Not having to commute, the comfort of one's own home, these things are hard to replace.

Although at the same time, 75% of remote workers experience some form of stress or burnout at work. Remote workers tend to work more, take less breaks, and find it hard to feel disconnected from work. It’s much easier to find oneself working extra when there’s no need to physically leave the space one is working from.

Overall remote workers are then stressed and disorganized. Distractions are an obvious side effect of remote work, and they reduce the quality of work as well as build stress. Delays are also more common in the remote work world. It’s easy for a project to be sidelined or altered when it’s only been worked on remotely. Finally, time spent doing remote work tends to be less meaningful. While the physical output of physical work isn’t always terribly meaningful, at least it’s there. Remote workers in many cases have little to show for their work.

In response, many remote employers are looking at time tracking. While it feels like a solution that wouldn’t solve many of these problems, that’s not the case. Time tracking keeps employers on task, this means both for work hours and even breaks. This makes it so that remote workers are distracted less and are more confident in their work. Time tracking also gives workers a bit more purpose. Knowing where time was spent, tracking progress, this brings back a lot of meaning to a job.

Employees themselves also obviously benefit from time tracking. Time tracking ensures that employees are working and gives more resources on what and when. Timesheets do have employees putting down their hours, but not in a way that automated systems do. Facial recognition, for example, lets more detail on what was being worked on when to be displayed. 

There are other alternatives, measurements of keystrokes and general activity are also common. Although anything that takes in more detail will help employees in a way that alternatives can’t. For the remote worker, feeling like a meaningful and real employee is hard. Time tracking makes sure that the employee is working when they should, and importantly not when they’re not. This is why it’s so important to the future of the remote working world.

How Facial Recognition makes Remote Work More Seamless and Less Distributed - TrackTime24.com
Source: TrackTime24.com
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Adam Torkildson
Adam Torkildson
Adam is a long-time resident of American Fork, UT. He serves in several local service organizations and advises several startups that he's invested in or founded.
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