Employee Tracking Software for Remote Worker

Good way to piss off employees

What place is this? So I know never to work there

Can you not tell if they’re doing the work without this?

Maybe you could just have a microchip implanted into your employees like the ones they use for pets. Possibly you can get ones to remotely deliver an electrical shock if you think they may be goofing off.

what's your company name?

Stop micromanaging.

Hire robots

yashgandhi wrote: ↑ Good way to piss off employees

I mean I understand this but I have hired hourly remote workers and I can clearly tell their time sheet is bullshit. I pay it but 100% they lie about the hours it took to complete a task.

jronald wrote: ↑ I mean I understand this but I have hired hourly remote workers and I can clearly tell their time sheet is bullshit. I pay it but 100% they lie about the hours it took to complete a task.

I can understand your point of view. But are they doing their job? I mean it's hard from an employer to eveluate this because it seems it always cost too much. But if you have what you pay for, the rest is not really important.

Have you consider talking about it with them?

SPARTACVS wrote: ↑ I can understand your point of view. But are they doing their job? I mean it's hard from an employer to eveluate this because it seems it always cost too much. But if you have what you pay for, the rest is not really important.

Have you consider talking about it with them?

The 2 bolded statements contradict each other.

If he has hourly employees and they fudge their timesheets, it is important. If their timesheets say 10 hours for a task that takes 5 that means he's paying 2x the price to get the work done. It means the staff are lying and overcharging. How would you feel if plumber came into you house and told you the job would cost $500 for 5 hours of labor. Then when it's complete they came back and lied and said it took 10 so now you owe $1,000 when it really only took him 5 hours and he lied? You got what you paid for right? Doesn't matter if he lied and inflated the price.

It doesn't mean OP should be micromanaging and complaining about a discrepancy of 20-30 minutes but it could be very serious or very minor.

Worriedone wrote: ↑ The 2 bolded statements contradict each other.

If he has hourly employees and they fudge their timesheets, it is important. If their timesheets say 10 hours for a task that takes 5 that means he's paying 2x the price to get the work done. It means the staff are lying and overcharging. How would you feel if plumber came into you house and told you the job would cost $500 for 5 hours of labor. Then when it's complete they came back and lied and said it took 10 so now you owe $1,000 when it really only took him 5 hours and he lied? You got what you paid for right? Doesn't matter if he lied and inflated the price.

It doesn't mean OP should be micromanaging and complaining about a discrepancy of 20-30 minutes but it could be very serious or very minor.

Because things are more complex than that (I admit my explaination in my previous post wasn't the best).
1) Do they really don't work the working hours?
2) If so by how much?
3) Are they decently paid for the job? Not saying that in the sense of fairness but some boss are cheap or disconected about the maket value of employees (not implying anything toward OP) and they can expect that kind of behaviour. If this is the case, he can ask the employees to do the right time but, then, they will most probably go away and he might have a hard time to find peoples to replace them. It's all hypothetical but also very typical.

I like to mention I didn't downvoted.

SPARTACVS wrote: ↑ Because things are more complex than that.
1) Do they really don't work the working hours?
2) If so by how much?
3) Are they decently paid for the job? Not saying that in the sense of fairness but some boss are cheap or disconected about the maket value of employees (not implying anything toward OP) and they can expect that kind of behaviour. If this is the case, he can ask the employees to do the right time but, then, they will most probably go away and he might have a hard time to find peoples to replace them. It's all hypothetical but also very typical.

It's actually not any more complex than that at all. And it doesn't change the fact that the 2 statement s you made are contradictory. I again will point out the example I made in regards to the plumber. If the plumber lied about the hours worked and inflated the price does it really matter, because as you say, you got what you paid for? You paid for a task to be done and it was done.

1) He already said they are fudging the numbers, inflating the worked hours.
2) It doesn't really matter. Inflating the hours worked by 1 hour or 10 is dishonest.
3) Irrelevant to the discussion at hand. We are talking about honesty here, which comes down to morals and ethics. at hand. Unless of course you are saying it's alight to steal, lie and inflate your worked hours because you feel you should be paid more? Forget the fact that you agreed to the job already at x rate per hour, you just decided to change your mind and steal?

If you think this type of behavior goes hand in hand with employers who are to "cheap" I would agree, however that's an entirely different dissuasion altogether. It doesn't change the fact that employees inflating time sheets is important because it comes down to their morals and ethics. If they are doing this and purposely being dishonest, what else might they be doing? And if you bumped up their pay to an extra $5-$10 per hour or whatever, their morals won't change and this type of behavior will continue.

For the record, I don't think that an employer should be monitoring his staff in these situations. I also think employees artificially inflating their time sheets for hours worked need to go ASAP.

Not sure why everyone has negative comments to OP's post. If you are working for just any employer they are guaranteed to use some sort of software to track. If you have been in the workforce enough you should know. If you don't ask some buddy in IT or HR. Companies keep the data and use when they need to!.

This was also on CBC a few months back, but this is something that has been on for years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/workin ... -1.5561969

OP check this out: https://www.activtrak.com/free-employee ... -software/