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Seriously? Can you elaborate more on this? Why is it required by law and how to do it effectively?
by rudasn 15y ago
Seriously? Can you elaborate more on this? Why is it required by law and how to do it effectively?
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- lobster_johnson 15y agoI should have qualified my response, but I was running to a meeting at the time: It's not mandated by law for all companies, of course; that would be insane. Time tracking is required for any company that bills clients by some unit of time (or bills another department within the same company for services, which is fairly common for large companies). Even if part of your workday is not related to external customers, once you are "tainted" by the time-tracking clause, you have to track all your work hours. For example, I myself work on a product as a developer, and only a small part of my time is spent directly servicing customers. Even so, all my work hours have to be logged. I am allowed to log all my internal hours as one block if I want, but the manager guys like seeing how/where our time is spent, so they want us to log our work hours as finely grained as possible. We are a small 15-person company, so it feels a bit weird, but it's not a huge bother. We currently use Harvest, which is not a good app for managing a project, but is a very good app for invoicing. The whole law is probably related to some EU directive, but I don't know the specifics.