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When COVID-19 hit, businesses across the world scattered (and still are) to respond in a manner by which they could keep both their customers and employees safe.
Thus, in 2020 more employees worked from home than ever before. Has your response worked?
Hesitant to work remote?
It’s no secret that many employers were hesitant – and still are – about the change. Traditionally, there hasn’t exactly been a popular view on employees working from home. They’ll waste time. Nothing will get done. My employees will get distracted. How do I know what they’re doing?
If you looked at your team, who right now would you trust to work from home, and who would you not? What is the reason? Would productivity improve, get worse, or stay the same if your entire team worked from home? Does everyone need to work in office? Certainly some businesses require this. Maybe you can support a hybrid model by having employees both at home and in office.
Because COVID-19 sprung up so quickly, many small businesses were forced to respond quickly. But how did most common concerns get resolved?
The cats out of the bag. Remote work works!
Whatever you chose for your own business, 2020 ripped the cat out of the bag so quickly that we have already have a pretty clear answer. I recommend reading Bryan Robinson’s article on Forbes.com, posted here. We’ve learned that working from home works! But how did business, particular small business owners, make this work?
There are common themes across industries that management and leadership have spoken of. The need for trust from management to employees facilitates trust the other way around. Metrics for every employee – despite what their job is – is an excellent way to help people account for their time spent working. Not only that, it helps any person in any position – from secretary to CEO – to take personal ownership over their job and report on it to others. They can easily demonstrate wins and teams can more quickly identify problems.
And of course, legit, real, not-on-paper time tracking. Unfortunately, tracking employee’s time on paper is all too common for many small businesses. When COVID-19 hit, many small business owners were faced with a choice. Do I trust my team enough for them to tell me what they worked, even from home? Or do I need to get a time tracking software? Let me share some news with you as I’ve been in this industry for years. Tracking employee time is a game that, generally speaking, doesn’t have to do with trust.
Time Tracking App: It has nothing to do with ‘trust’
Allowing your employees to tell you the time they worked – be it from home or in office – simply doesn’t work. Even with the employees you’d trust your life to, time theft (not always a malicious),time pushing, and time inaccuracy are the norm. Especially on paper. It’s common for employees – intentional or not – to clock out later than they should, or clock in before they’re scheduled to work.
Of course, there are malicious employees, too, who seek to steal time. I hope this isn’t your situation!
Whatever your situation, I recommend getting a remote time clock software
or time tracking app. Small business owners can create accountability, clarity, and cut money on unnecessary payroll when a time tracking app is setup. Not only that, but employees themselves are able to be more responsible for their time worked, seeing that they have to clock in and out each day.
Employees can simply open their app, type in their password, and clock in and out. It’s as simple as that. And at the end of the pay period (or anytime in between), you can run a report, check on people’s times, and even prevent overtime if needed.
TimeClick: the Time Tracking App for Remote Workers
TimeClick is a simple time clock software and time tracking app designed to help small businesses make the transition from paper to a program. It only takes 30 minutes to setup, too, at an average price of $499, once. Our time tracking app takes just a minute to install and works on both Apple and Android devices.
Whether you’re working from home, in office, or both, tracking employee time the right way is a crucial business function to help you save both time and money. It also reduces employee error, payroll error, and get’s those awkward moments out of the way where you’re forced to ‘trust’ an employee on the time they tell you. And during this pandemic where so many employees have had to move home, our time tracking app is there to help.
If you want to get try out TimeClick for free, look at our app, or have any other questions, check us out at https://timeclick.com/. You can also call our cool, non-pressure sales team at 435-753-4102, ext. 1, or email us at sales@timeclick.com. We’re glad to help with any time tracking questions!