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I have always wondered why reporting was always so complicated and broken in every company I worked with. By reporting I mean "I spent two days on this project,
by GuB-42 5y ago
I have always wondered why reporting was always so complicated and broken in every company I worked with. By reporting I mean "I spent two days on this project, five on that one and took a day off, I also had to drive 50 km to the the customer's site so that's an expense.". Then I realized a lot was happening behind the scene, some of them being legal requirements with hefty fines if not done right. And all companies are different.
And even though we have all these tools, I am impressed by how much tedious manual work is still done. For example, our poor assistant manager has to check that every expense is tied to the correct project, and the tools does nothing to help her (or us for that matter).
- _carbyau_ 5y agoI always figured it was because: 1. HR/Finance/etc buys and runs a package from 3rd party to meet their desires. This is fine. 2. Their desires include all employees enter in details and navigate forms for themselves, but they have to be approved by their manager. Top level management decision that this is fine. 3. The group specifying requirements is now divorced from the users. leading to : 4. very little thought given to user experience for vast majority of users.