Encouraging Your Employees To Track Time Properly

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Encouraging Your Employees To Track Time Properly
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• It has been said that up to 8 billion dollars a
  day may be lost in untracked work hours,
  affecting the US economy and having a very real
  impact upon individual businesses, big and small.
  Time is as important an element of business as
  any other, but it can be challenging to encourage
  employees to see it as being so.
• So, to help you try and combat this common
  problem, here are a few tips for trying to
  convince your employees that its also in their
  best interests to track their time at work,
  properly.
• Establishing trust
• Vital for a healthy relationship between
  management and employees, trust must be a two-way
  street.

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• If your staff are forced to track their time
  without being told why its so important, then
  youll doubtless do nothing more than encourage
  suspicions and a lack of trust. It may also lead
  to employees feeling that they need to cheat when
  filling out their timesheets. Instead, talk to
  your workforce about why you need tracking data,
  and how it benefits every party.
• Set up a system that everyone can easily use
• Once youve set up a tracking system to record
  your employees working hours, talk them through
  it and ensure that they all know how to use it
  correctly before you put it into force.

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• Sharing is caring
• Unless the time logs of your workers really must
  be kept private, you should consider sharing them
  with the team to encourage and build trust. You
  can use a big screen to display the teams
  tracking data and display it in a place where it
  can be seen by everybody.
• Gain their valuable feedback
• Listen to your employees when/if they give you
  feedback about their use of time and give them
  ample opportunity to share their thoughts with
  you and the management team.

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• Also talk to them regularly about how they are
  getting on with the new tracking system and take
  on board any suggestions for improvement that
  they might have.
• Positive reinforcement
• Reward for desired behaviour is a centuries old,
  tried and tested method of modifying peoples
  behaviour. If your employees are conforming to
  your time tracking requirements, then reward them
  with bonuses, days off or gifts, making them far
  more likely to continue repeating that behaviour
  in the future.

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• Outsource time tracking
• One way of ensuring that you always get accurate
  data from your employees, is to outsource time
  tracking and have a professional company take
  over the process from beginning to end. This is
  often the most cost effective and efficient way
  of tackling the issue of tracking time, and is a
  one-stop solution for all your employee related
  concerns, since most such companies offer
  multiple work-related services, such as HR and
  payroll.
• Never underestimate the importance of accurate
  tracking of your employees time, and as we enter
  a new year of business, make it one of your top
  priorities if you feel it to be an area of your
  business at which you may be failing.

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