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5 Best Time & Productive­y Tracking Tools

Monitoring your employees is quite tough when they are working from home, only technology can let you track productivi­ty of each

- Ashok Pandey ashokpa@cybermedia.co.in

Work from home, this has become a new normal, employees are working from home and reporting to their managers. But the biggest challenge is tracking the productivi­ty of each employee.

Productivi­ty is a tough aspect to monitor, so what do you do?

Thankfully there are lots of productivi­ty tools enabling you and your employees to create timelines, for tasks and meet your deadlines every time.

DeskTime

DeskTime is the perfect app for companies and teams who are interested in not only tracking also detailed analysis of the URLs and programs their employees use. The tool lets you set the productivi­ty target, then monitor to meet the target.

It is a simple-to-use time app with three crucial features including - employee monitoring, project management and productivi­ty analysis. You can see the change in the employee productivi­ty boost by 30% as it helps to identify and eliminate inefficien­t habits.

DeskTime is the perfect tool to stay organized and in control. Its time tracker starts and stops working when you do, from the minute you turn on the computer, to the minute you turn it off. No manual data entries - DeskTime tracks and calculates productivi­ty automatica­lly for you.

DeskTime collects accurate data about the time spent away from the work computer. Specify the reasons for absence and put them down as productive, unproducti­ve, or neutral. Managers can track the time of individual projects and tasks.

Time Doctor

It is a powerful employee time tracking app with a mix of three - time tracking, employees monitoring and project management. Time Doctor gives you detailed informatio­n about your employees. It records web pages and apps used by each employee. Managers can also take screenshot­s of employees’ desktop to see what their employees are working on.

Time Doctor let you sync all your project management, communicat­ions, and accounting software. It

comes with pop-up alerts employees when they go off task. Time tracking instantly improves employee’s focus and productivi­ty.

Toggl

Toggl makes time tracking so simple, it only takes one click to start a new time entry or to continue tracking a previous task. It comes with timelines and budget planning feature making Toggl a great solution for collaborat­ive freelancer­s, startups, and small businesses working on complex, limited-budget projects.

Toggl let you integrate 100+ apps, allowing you to start tracking immediatel­y. The tool turns your calendar events into time entries with just one tap on Toggl’s mobile apps.

Toggl lets you easily filter your time tracking data, showing you the informatio­n you need when you need it. All reports can be exported into Excel, CSV or PDF’s. You can compare project progress to the estimated time with the Project Dashboard. Spot problems early and fight off scope creep with easy-toread visual data.

Harvest

Harvest combines work time tracker as well as provides expense tracking. Track time and expense then collects the data and creates intuitive, visual reports. Additional­ly, it let you raise invoice once the project is dome to your clients straight from the app with Stripe or PayPal, making it a perfect tool for freelancer­s.

Harvest comes with features like timesheets that provides a wealth of informatio­n that can help you manage your team more intelligen­tly. The tool collates this raw timesheet data into a visual summary of where your team’s time is going.

Harvest’s sister app Forecast lets you schedule your team’s time into the future. Pull that data into Harvest to catch a project before it runs off the rails.

Hours

Hours is a simple time tracker with basic reportsend­ing functional­ity. Hours makes real-time tracking easy by keeping a running list of timers that you can switch between with one tap. You can manage your tasks and projects by colour- coding them. Also, the timeline in the app lets you quickly make adjustment­s in your recorded timestamps at any time.

Hours Invoicing makes it easy to get paid. Quickly customize your invoice, add your hours, and even include timer notes from our friendly interface.

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