It is crucial to think about what you want to achieve with time tracking at first. Once you've done that, you can use prima:Time to either:
bill your clients and evaluate the profitability of your projects
keep track of how much time do your employees spend on projects and activities, thus measuring their productivity.
We will call these two structures as Track & Bill and Track & Check.
The Track & Bill structure
As it is clear from the name, this structure is best used to track time, bill it out and evaluate the profitability of your projects.
To set up this structure, do the following:
Evaluate the profitability of your projects in the Reports
Note: this is the simplest version of the Track & Bill structure. You also create tasks and activities to further specify the activities worked on.
The Track & Check structure
This structure works the best for businesses, which want to keep track of how much time do their employees spend on projects and activities, thus measuring their productivity.
Productivity can be measured in terms of number of finished tasks over time. Reducing the required time to finish tasks leaves you with extra available time, which can be then invested into other activities. Completing more work in less time increases sales, thus increasing the productivity of your business.
To set up this structure, do the following:
Hide the Client field in the Time Tracking settings
Analyze the tracked time in Reports
Change the discovered unproductivity → Become more productive
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