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Using Calendar to Keep Track of Time
There are many ways to keep track of time for project work and billing. Some people use notebooks or Excel sheets. Others rely on mobile apps or online timer services. For calendar-oriented people whose days are filled with meetings and working slots in between, using a calendar to track time entries is a solid option.…
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What is Augmented Process Automation?
Most of us are familiar with Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Augmented Reality (AR). Augmented Process Automation (APA) sits somewhere between the two. Robotic Process Automation is a software robot, as the name suggests, that automatically processes information from existing IT systems. A typical example of RPA is handling applications and approving or rejecting them…
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The Journey of a Finnish Start-up Company
Facing the Frustration The ideas behind Timetabs AI-powered time tracking emerged over years of software consulting. There is a shared frustration experienced by countless consultants who grapple with the tedious task of meticulously recording their workday activities down to half-hour increments and ensuring accurate billing descriptions. This frustration is also shared by project managers tasked…
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No More Meetings Without a Time Tracking Code
Once upon a time, my colleague stated that there are two precursors for a successful meeting: The latter precursor is particularly relevant in consulting companies where each hour must be recorded meticulously to the correct cost center, and preferably to one that can be billed from the customer. How often have you been attending to…
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Use Even the Smallest Opportunities to Record Work Hours
You have been working the whole morning, and when you look back, you have only a vague idea of what you did and what was accomplished. On top of that, you don’t have the slightest idea which cost center or project you could record the work hours to. Does that sound familiar? This feeling is…
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The Problem of Context Switching and Time Tracking
The modern working day is often full of context switches. They are caused by multiple meetings on different topics, emails, instant messages, and chats with teammates. Studies show that getting sidetracked by other tasks costs an average of 25 minutes before people can fully reorient themselves to the original task. Online meetings often take up…