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Pros & Cons of Time Tracking Your Team

Why manager shouldn’t necessarily implement time-tracking

Your team recently may have gone remote, and with that, you may be concerned as a business owner that your employees are doing their work.

Without seeing them in the office, that concept of accountability feels drained from your team dynamic. Are they working in the right manner and are they delivering what they need to? Should I time-track them or not?

⏱ What is time tracking?

Time tracking is what it says on the tin. Tracking each employee's time spent on projects, tasks, and clients. You can easily implement this through one of two methods fairly easily.

• Project Management Tools — Many project management tools like ClickUp, Wrike & TeamGantt — all have time tracking abilities built-in.
• Time Tracking Tools — Tools like Timely, Hours, Toggl are all resources that allow you and your team to calculate and track data.

Typically, time tracking tools are more accurate and provide you with reporting, timesheets, client/project data and employees with more control.

🙌🏼 Pros

• Increased Transparency — Many employees like to track their work. It helps them to stay…