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What
Track time towards tasks and projects as you progress through your work.
Why
  • Manage your time and plan accordingly.
  • Better gauge how long you (or your team) spend on individual pieces of work and projects.
Who
  • Site admins can track time and manage all users' tracked time on any project.
  • Project admins can track time against any of their projects and manage all users' tracked time on projects they're an admin on.
  • Standard users and client users with the project permission (on at least one project):
    • View Time Log (allows users to view the project's Time area)
    • View Other People's Time (allows users to view time logged by other users)
    • Log Time (allows users to log time against the project or to individual tasks, as well as view and manage their own logged time on the project)
When
Any time you're working on a project or task, especially if it's work you'll be billing for.
What
Track time towards tasks and projects as you progress through your work.
Why
  • Manage your time and plan accordingly.
  • Better gauge how long you (or your team) spend on individual pieces of work and projects.
Who
  • Site admins can track time and manage all users' tracked time on any project.
  • Project admins can track time against any of their projects and manage all users' tracked time on projects they're an admin on.
  • Standard users and client users with the project permission (on at least one project):
    • View Time Log (allows users to view the project's Time area)
    • View Other People's Time (allows users to view time logged by other users)
    • Log Time (allows users to log time against the project or to individual tasks, as well as view and manage their own logged time on the project)
When
Any time you're working on a project or task, especially if it's work you'll be billing for.

Ways to track time in Teamwork.com


Manual time tracking
Log an individual time entry to a task or project.
Timers
Track time as you work using timers, then log the time to the chosen project or task.
Timesheet
Track time to tasks and projects from your personal timesheet.
Desktop Timer app
Populate Teamwork.com's desktop Timer app with tasks you track time against regularly. Each task has timer functions so you can easily switch tasks as you work.
Chrome extension
Use Teamwork.com's Chrome extension to manually log time or start a timer.
Email
Include a time entry when responding to email notifications relating to a specific task.
  • Ex. Type the duration within square brackets, such as [1h] as part of your reply.
Manual time tracking
Log an individual time entry to a task or project.
Timers
Track time as you work using timers, then log the time to the chosen project or task.
Timesheet
Track time to tasks and projects from your personal timesheet.
Desktop Timer app
Populate Teamwork.com's desktop Timer app with tasks you track time against regularly. Each task has timer functions so you can easily switch tasks as you work.
Chrome extension
Use Teamwork.com's Chrome extension to manually log time or start a timer.
Email
Include a time entry when responding to email notifications relating to a specific task.
  • Ex. Type the duration within square brackets, such as [1h] as part of your reply.


Time tracking takeaways


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Communicate

Communicate the value and benefit of time tracking to your leadership team to get them onboard. 
Ex: We'll be able to invoice accurately (and without wasting time).
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Help

Help employees see the value of time tracking by making the benefits relevant to them. 
Ex: You won't have to use that tool you hate anymore.
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Support

Provide support to employees to help them during the transition period.
Hint: We have training resources to help with this!
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Expectations

Share expectations and then follow up to make sure people are sticking to them. 
Ex: Set a standard that the week's time should be logged by 4pm every Friday.
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Model

Model the desired behaviors.
Ex: Why should others have to do something you don't have to? Make it easier by meeting your own expectations.
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Communicate

Communicate the value and benefit of time tracking to your leadership team to get them onboard.
Ex: We'll be able to invoice accurately (and without wasting time).
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Help

Help employees see the value of time tracking by making the benefits relevant to them.
Ex: You won't have to use that tool you hate anymore.
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Support

Provide support to employees to help them during the transition period.
Hint: We have training resources to help with this!
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Expectations

Share expectations and then follow up to make sure people are sticking to them. 
Ex: Set a standard that the week's time should be logged by 4pm every Friday.
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Model

Model the desired behaviors.
Ex: Why should others have to do something you don't have to? Make it easier by meeting your own expectations.


Understand time formats and decimal totals

Teamwork.com's default format for tracking time is hours and minutes. Whichever way you choose to track your time, time spent is recorded in this format.

When viewing existing tracked time in a project's Time section (or in the site-level All time view), you can view the time spent in two different ways.
  • Time - displays the time entry's total in hours and minutes (ex. "2h" or "4h 30m" or "13m")
  • Hours - displays the time entry's total in decimal format (ex. "2.00" or "4.5" or "0.217")
    📝 Individual time logs are formatted up to 3 decimal places. Any Total counts (time rollups) are formatted to 2 decimal places, rounded up or down as appropriate based on the cumulative individual time logs.
 
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