Time Tracking is Terrible: Do It Anyway
The best advice you get in life hurts like hell at the time. - Merlin Mann I've been tracking my work time for the past 20 years. Here is the deal: time tracking is terrible, there is no good time tracking product or system that can make it not terrible, and you just need to bite the bullet and track your time because it's valuable to do it. Are you resistant to time tracking? Yeah, me too. I worked at a big consulting company when the company implemented time tracking and we had the standard employee complaint that it was terrible. We used a custom-built in-house solution and it was awful. You know what? I tracked my time. I read the reports at the end of the week and month and I enjoyed what I got out of it. I have tracked my time ever since then, even when my company hasn't asked me to. I have run large scale professional services groups at two companies and At both I implemented time tracking on the team and people tracked their time. Did my employees hate tracking the...
