Using Timesheet to Improve Staff Motivation

time：2020-11-23 Staff like freedom but if the organization that they work for can’t distinguish hard work, moderate work and no work, they are also demotivated.  Time tracking is very basic from management standpoint and every organization should at least distinguish its staff are hard work, moderate work and no work.  

Modern timesheet cloud is easy to use and can help your organization to track the time of its employees and contractors.  Modern timesheet cloud such as 8Manage Timesheet can work together with modern project management cloud such as 8Manage PM to handle time tracking within or across projects. 

Modern timesheet cloud and modern project management cloud allow users to use them separately or in an integrated manner.  Staff who don’t involve project work can plan and track their time by non-project work categories (e.g., presales support, customer service, document review, line management and corporate responsibility).  Staff who involve project work can plan and track their time by both project work categories and non-project work categories.  In the case of project work, the planning and tracking can be further broken down by project or activity.  The accurate planning and tracking of staff’s time is very important to staff motivation.

An organization using modern timesheet cloud alone (without project management cloud) can define both project work and non-project work in different categories and subcategories so that planning and tracking can be done at detailed level.

An organization using modern timesheet cloud and project management cloud together can have the following benefits:
- Creating multiple projects and allocating staff’s time to them
- Entering time and expenses against projects, can provide managers visibility into project and resource performance
- Tracking time spent on project and non-project work precisely and managing resource allocation and utilization effectively to avoid budget over run 
- Automatic reporting on project % of complete, resource plan vs. actual and cost plan vs. actual.