August 2018 - Dovico Blog

5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Use Excel For Your Timesheets

Monday the 20th of August 2018 — Written by Dovico

A little story about Jessica Jessica works as an office administrator at a growing IT consulting firm. Like most office administrators, Jessica wears many hats. On top of taking care of the phone, she processes incoming payments, tidies the office, greets clients at the door and on top of it all; she manages the staff timesheet solution: a 15-year-old Excel spreadsheet. Excel has its strengths; collecting timesheets is not one of them. Every Monday morning,…

Where to Approve Employee Time in Dovico

Tuesday the 14th of August 2018 — Written by Dovico

Quickly approve or reject employee timesheets There was a time when effective employee time management was merely timekeepers gathering up punch clock cards, summing up the employees hours and then paying them accordingly. Now, there is a little more to it. With sensitive billing on projects and tasks being a concern, the time employees enter is more valuable than ever before, and it is crucial that the time entered is accurately saved. Keep all time…

Tagged: Approvals / delete / Edit / Employee Calendar / Onboarding / Rejected Time / Time Sheets

Take the guesswork out of timesheet entry

Tuesday the 14th of August 2018 — Written by Dovico

A programmer’s secret to improving his productivity Working on multiple projects, multiple times per day was a daily occurrence for Trent. He is a software developer in a small consulting firm of about 30 people. Being an essential member of such a small team, Trent spends most of his time working on many billable projects at the same time. Accurately recording his time between so many different tasks became a problem. If he waited until the…

Tagged: billable time / Onboarding / Tasks / Time Management / Time Tracking / Timer / timesheet