In a facebook group I'm in, everyone is sharing their favorite time-tracking software so that they can ensure that they get their "money's worth" for their remote employees. It's optimizing for the wrong variable. If you install time-tracking software, you're telling the...
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...employee "to succeed at this job, I need you to spend all your time working." But that's the completely wrong variable for which to optimize. A much better message would be "I don't care how you spend your time. Get things done and well."
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People work in spurts and erratically. Time-tracking software is a mistake made by an intermediate entrepreneur. They've figured out that their employees waste time, but haven't figured out that they're going to waste time no matter what you do, so tell'em to get their shit done.
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100%. It's one thing for a blue-collar, lunchpail time-clock kind of job, but those don't really exist anymore.
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I'm not even sure that this type of payment scheme/tracking works for those type of jobs. Probably better to just pay a flat fee per day worked, assuming certain things are accomplished in that day. Otherwise, there's financial incentive to do work slowly.
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