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Telecommuting appears to be a different bag of advantages and difficulties in the minds of several employers, but it doesn’t have to be. If executed and managed correctly, working from home could offer nothing but advantages for the right people. Some concerns about telecommuting include: Lack of face to face communication Decreased productivity Problem in […]

In the US, workers take on an average of 4.9 days off each year in sick leave; according to the analysis by PwC. If you are an SMB; these days can actually add up – if you have 100 workers for instance, that could determine an average of 490 days is wasted each year due […]

In some companies, employee lateness doesn’t really matter. Some projects simply need completion, like filling envelopes for instance, and it doesn’t really matter if it gets finished at 10 am or 10 pm. But for most workers, being on time does matter, and for some, it means a whole lot. Salespeople, for instance, have a […]

Gallup’s report presents interesting facts about overtime, “adults employed full time in the U.S. report working an average of 47 hours per week, almost a full workday longer than what a standard five-day, 9-to-5 schedule entails.” More and more workers spend extra time at work. This happens due to an overload of work, distractions or […]

Quality of work and time spent on it are crucial metrics when your goal is to boost productivity. In the business environment, day by day we deal with the limitless number of tasks, dates, and deadlines that form short or long-term projects. Besides, many people strive to apply business-like approaches in personal affairs considering them […]

Sick time pay is an apparent advantage for workers but, while not as obvious, it is no less advantageous for employers. The company paid sick time isn’t federally mandated, but numerous countries and cities are passing their own laws around it. With the increasing trend, companies have been questioning why they should have to be […]

Numerous companies want to track worker location. Depending on where workers are during work hours, there are two methods to achieve employee location tracking. For office employees For mobile employees Location tracking for office employees You can track office employees location to ensure they are only timing in from the office and not from someplace […]

Drive time to office refers to the time spent going out during work hours for work ends. It’s not the time consumed going to and from work. That’s commuting, and companies don’t have to compensate for that. Many companies mistakenly think that since you don’t have to pay workers for drive time to and from […]

Workers would believe that overtime and double time rules are pretty simple. They think they should be able to add up the number of hours that should be counted for both based on the number of hours they work every week, but the estimations can get somewhat tricky. There are even methods that companies can […]

Time tracking software is presently one of the most widely famous tools in numerous offices and is applied in different industries. It is employed to record work hours of workers, but even individual people choose to implement the time tracking software in their work. In various organizations, time tracking is necessary. And while workers often […]