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Why a Time Tracking Solution is right for your business now

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Why a Time Tracking Solution is right for your business now

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You have probably heard the term time tracking thrown around, but what is it really? When is time tracking needed? Are you hitting roadblocks or struggling to reach that next level of efficiency to compete more effectively? Time tracking software can capture time spent on jobs or project tasks in real time—both on-site and off-site. In today’s new world of increased remote work, this may be exactly what you need. Keep reading to see why a time tracking solution might be right for your business today.

Why a Time Tracking Solution is right for your business now

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Keeps employees on track

Is improved efficiency one of your key performance goals for your employees who work on-site or off-site? Employees will be more inclined to remain on task when they are ‘on the clock’ tracking time for a given job or task. Often, a lack of productivity is not due to an employee slacking or taking too many breaks. Rather, it can be that they do not recognize the significance of how much time is spent on a job, or they simply do not know what needs to be done outside of their direct line of sight. Time tracking can allow your employees to take a deeper look into their actual daily output to help them excel in their roles.

You’re struggling to hit that ‘Next Level’

Are you attempting to scale your business to no avail? Often, when you feel stuck, it is a sign that something needs to change. You cannot continue to do the same thing, and expect to yield different results! Improved accuracy and increased insights could be exactly what you need to take your business to the next level.

Your pricing model is built on output

Sometimes, minor discrepancies in pricing and output won’t make or break your business. But often, especially in manufacturing, every minute counts. You need real-time data to compare against your job standards to competitively price your product. Without a clear understanding of how long production actually takes, it can be easy to fall back on outdated ‘job standards’, and result in a loss of revenue. Time tracking can help you quit the guessing game and be confident that your pricing model is right for your business.

Gain instant insight to job status

While it is important to check in on jobs and monitor their status, this often means taking a walk through the shop floor or driving to a job site. With time tracking, you can see the status of any number of jobs from your handheld device or computer. You can compare and monitor progress, determine top performers, and more without needing to physically monitor your employees.

Want to uncover the roadblocks that are holding your business back? Increase visibility and drive efficiency with simple time tracking software. You can click here to begin a 14 day free trial of riteTIME to see if time tracking is right for your business.

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You have probably heard the term time tracking thrown around, but what is it really? When is time tracking needed? Are you hitting roadblocks or struggling to reach that next level of efficiency to compete more effectively? Time tracking software can capture time spent on jobs or project tasks in real time—both on-site and off-site. In today’s new world of increased remote work, this may be exactly what you need. Keep reading to see why a time tracking solution might be right for your business today.

Why a Time Tracking Solution is right for your business now

Keeps employees on track

Is improved efficiency one of your key performance goals for your employees who work on-site or off-site? Employees will be more inclined to remain on task when they are ‘on the clock’ tracking time for a given job or task. Often, a lack of productivity is not due to an employee slacking or taking too many breaks. Rather, it can be that they do not recognize the significance of how much time is spent on a job, or they simply do not know what needs to be done outside of their direct line of sight. Time tracking can allow your employees to take a deeper look into their actual daily output to help them excel in their roles.

You’re struggling to hit that ‘Next Level’

Are you attempting to scale your business to no avail? Often, when you feel stuck, it is a sign that something needs to change. You cannot continue to do the same thing, and expect to yield different results! Improved accuracy and increased insights could be exactly what you need to take your business to the next level.

Your pricing model is built on output

Sometimes, minor discrepancies in pricing and output won’t make or break your business. But often, especially in manufacturing, every minute counts. You need real-time data to compare against your job standards to competitively price your product. Without a clear understanding of how long production actually takes, it can be easy to fall back on outdated ‘job standards’, and result in a loss of revenue. Time tracking can help you quit the guessing game and be confident that your pricing model is right for your business.

Gain instant insight to job status

While it is important to check in on jobs and monitor their status, this often means taking a walk through the shop floor or driving to a job site. With time tracking, you can see the status of any number of jobs from your handheld device or computer. You can compare and monitor progress, determine top performers, and more without needing to physically monitor your employees.

Want to uncover the roadblocks that are holding your business back? Increase visibility and drive efficiency with simple time tracking software. You can click here to begin a 14 day free trial of riteTIME to see if time tracking is right for your business.

Tips to Help Your Staff Work Remotely

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Tips to Help Your Staff Work Remotely

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During this time of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people still need human interaction. Thanks to technology, it is easier than ever to stay connected — even when we can’t be together in person. As a software company, the riteSOFT team routinely works remotely while serving our global customer base. While we may be working from home, we still have practices in place to keep us connected and encourage collaboration. Keep reading for some tips and tricks to help your staff work remotely.

Tips to Help Your Staff Work Remotely

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Provide the right communication tools

Today’s communication tools can make remote work easier than ever before. Utilize products like Microsoft Teams and Zoom video conferencing to communicate effectively to enable chat communication, phone calls, and video meetings. Many of these services are available for free right now to support remote workers. Start using remote technology if you are not already doing so! Efficient, secure file sharing is also important. Consider setting up a SharePoint site for your team.

Touch base with your staff regularly

With remote work, it can be easy to become disconnected. Morning chats in the break room and catching up on each other’s weekends becomes more challenging. Check in daily. Do more than a quick e-mail. Take the time to schedule a phone call, video session, or team conference call to stay connected.

Encourage a Routine

One of the first mistakes many people make when working remotely is to give up their morning getting-ready for work routine. Encourage your employees to maintain their previous routine! Get dressed. Put on real clothing. Change out of those pajamas! And, set guidelines. Create a regular work area to eliminate distractions. Try to encourage your team to work within their regularly scheduled hours. Stick to start and end times. This helps maintain a sense of normalcy and consistency during uncertain times.

Set Clear Goals

When working remotely, trust is key. Knowing that your employees are getting their work done is much easier to do when you set clear goals. By setting specific short-term tasks to achieve goals, you can know your team is moving forward, even if they aren’t on site. Use your touch base meetings to see what has been accomplished, what needs to be done, and to ensure that weekly tasks are being completed.

Utilize Time Tracking Tools

Even when working from home, you can help keep your employees on track and accurately gauge how much work is being done. Consider utilizing a time tracking tool to ensure productivity and motivation stay high!

Has your team tried working remotely? With a little work and consistency, remote work can be just as successful with amazing results.

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4 Reasons Why Paper Timesheets are Hurting Your Business

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4 Reasons Why Paper Timesheets are Hurting Your Business

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If you have hourly employees, then time sheets are a part of your daily routine. In manufacturing, time tracking is more than just when an employee begins and ends their day, however. Sticking to your paper time cards may seem like the most cost effective method, but keep reading to see why paper time sheets might actually be hurting your business.

4 Reasons Why Paper Timesheets are Hurting Your Business

1. Inaccurate Data

You have likely seen it before. Employees track time throughout the week on specific jobs and tasks. But if you watch closely, you will likely find them entering an average ‘guess’ at the actual amount of time spent on a specific task or writing down approximate start and stop times.

2. Lack of Up-To-Date Information

Do you struggle with maintaining accurate data, managing inventory, and quickly knowing the actual cost of completing a job or task? A lack of up-to-date job costing information is likely to blame—and your paper time sheets might be, too. Without precise labor and production data, you can’t assess the true time and cost to complete a job. This impacts your ability to competitively price your products, which can result in large profit losses over time.

3. More Mistakes and Errors

If you deal with paper timesheets, then you also deal with mistakes, difficult handwriting, and employees forgetting to turn them in. Correcting mistakes and tracking down lost timesheets costs you money and prevents you from working on more important tasks. Maybe it’s time to automate your time tracking. Digital time sheets allow for quick corrections, supervisor overrides, fast approvals and more.

4. Time Spent on Payroll

Digital time sheets help you better track time and monitor employee hours, and they also save you payroll time. Imagine the time that could be saved by eliminating the need to read messy time sheets, manually enter the data, and then submit the data to payroll.

Is your business still using paper timesheets? What could you gain by reducing errors and gaining more accurate time monitoring capability?

Check out riteTIME

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Our sales & implementation specialists are experts in the field and would love to help you. Contact us to learn more!

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If you have hourly employees, then time sheets are a part of your daily routine. In manufacturing, time tracking is more than just when an employee begins and ends their day, however. Sticking to your paper time cards may seem like the most cost effective method, but keep reading to see why paper time sheets might actually be hurting your business.

4 Reasons Why Paper Timesheets are Hurting Your Business

1. Inaccurate Data

You have likely seen it before. Employees track time throughout the week on specific jobs and tasks. But if you watch closely, you will likely find them entering an average ‘guess’ at the actual amount of time spent on a specific task or writing down approximate start and stop times.

2. Lack of Up-To-Date Information

Do you struggle with maintaining accurate data, managing inventory, and quickly knowing the actual cost of completing a job or task? A lack of up-to-date job costing information is likely to blame—and your paper time sheets might be, too. Without precise labor and production data, you can’t assess the true time and cost to complete a job. This impacts your ability to competitively price your products, which can result in large profit losses over time.

3. More Mistakes and Errors

If you deal with paper timesheets, then you also deal with mistakes, difficult handwriting, and employees forgetting to turn them in. Correcting mistakes and tracking down lost timesheets costs you money and prevents you from working on more important tasks. Maybe it’s time to automate your time tracking. Digital time sheets allow for quick corrections, supervisor overrides, fast approvals and more.

4. Time Spent on Payroll

Digital time sheets help you better track time and monitor employee hours, and they also save you payroll time. Imagine the time that could be saved by eliminating the need to read messy time sheets, manually enter the data, and then submit the data to payroll.

Is your business still using paper timesheets? What could you gain by reducing errors and gaining more accurate time monitoring capability?

Check out riteTIME

 

Gain Visibility Into Your Business with riteTIME

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Gain Visibility Into Your Business with riteTIME

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Have you ever felt like you don’t know what’s really happening on your shop floor? As your business grows and margins become tighter, it can be easy to feel like you don’t have a grasp on what it takes to optimize your shop floor processes. You need to take that next step to grow, but you just aren’t sure what’s holding you back? This is where time tracking can make all the difference.

Utilizing a shop floor data and time tracking solution can allow you to gain valuable insights into your business. Unemployment rates are reaching historic lows across many markets. This means new workers are scarce, and it is more important than ever to utilize your current workforce and ensure you are making every resource count. Maximizing efficiency and effectiveness is the goal, and riteTIME is a tool that can provide just that.

Monitor performance at a glance to see where the issues are before they become big problems

When was the last time you had to walk the shop floor, or when you had an idea of where productivity was at through real time project data? Wouldn’t it be great to have access to that information? Visibility is everything. Think of popular transportation services. They allow you to track where your driver is in REAL time. This means you know how far they are from your current location, when to expect them, and any hiccups that may occur along the way. This is how riteTIME works. Without leaving your desk to conduct a walkthrough, you can gain visibility without wasting time. As you work to scale your business and maximize efficiency, these insights are crucial to understanding your workplace.

Stay ahead of the curve and help scale your business with the utilization of riteTIME. Contact us today to learn more!

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Our sales & implementation specialists are experts in the field and would love to help you. Contact us to learn more!

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