Re: Time Sheets

[Toni Williams TPG/SG <towilliams -at- PROCYONGROUP -dot- COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: D. Margulis [SMTP:ampersandvirgule -at- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET]
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 12:25 PM
> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject:      Re: Time Sheets
>
        >>   kalpana thakar wrote:
        >> Could you folks tell me if you are required to fill time
sheets on a
        >> daily basis which tracks/measures the number of hours you
spend in a
        >> particular activity in a day?
        >>
        >> I sincerly believe that since our job entails a lot of
creativity,
        >> there's no way in which one can track/measure creativity.  A
lot of
        >> thought process goes into our job, so can one start jotting
down the
        >> time spent on the thought process?


        >D. Margulis wrote (in part):

        >In my experience, despite general paranoia to the contrary,
companies
        >are not interested in tracking your bathroom breaks and phone
calls as
        >much as they are interested in having defensible recordkeeping
        >procedures in place for cost accounting purposes.

        >Ask your supervisor what level of detail is expected. Usually
you can
        >get away with a best guess approach that adds up to the right
number of
        >total hours at the end of the week and allocates your time
reasonably
        >among projects. All the little boxes on the form are there to
help you
        >keep track day by day, but the weekly totals are what go in the
books.

        Actually, this is my experience as well. The company is not
acting out a "Big Brother"
        scenario but merely trying to build an audit trail to justify
billing, etc. In fact, I have not
        worked for a company that did not, in some manner, track
project-worked hours.

        HTH.

        Toni

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