I picked those numbers to make the math easy. No one should or will spend anywhere near an hour entering time into a time tracking system, unless it is horribly

I picked those numbers to make the math easy. No one should or will spend anywhere near an hour entering time into a time tracking system, unless it is horribly designed. >People will often start to wonder why they work so hard if the company doesn't take their time seriously. This is a failure of communication. People tend to get frustrated with paperwork when they do not understand its purpose or importance. Those employees who are discouraged by hours tracking paperwork don't realize that the company is being paid by the government to have them fill out that paperwork. Management needs to communicate to employees that there is a very significant impact on the bottom line from them properly filling out that paperwork. That impact increases their wages and the company's ability to survive and thus to provide them continuing, stable employment. Now, if you think its pointless that the IRS requires them to fill out this paperwork, well that's another discussion, but I can offer you arguments in favor of verifying R&D activities before granting public subsidies for them and in favor of the subsidies themselves.