Time is Precious Save your company lost time and money by reading this inforgraphic on the history of time tracking and the solutions TSheets offers for tracking employee time. In the history of time, perhaps no single document has explained time in the workplace better than the TSheets Time Tracker Infographic. By tracking time back over a thousand years, TSheets explains, in textual and visual detail, how our workday hours are shrinking. Yet employees are packing more productivity than ever before. How is that possible?

1. THE COST OF LOST TIME
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orprayerfrom
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theywouldbeaudibleforalongdistance.
Dial & Tides
The earliest public clocks
divided the working day
into ‘tides’ not hours.
The church bell would
ring every three
hours dividing
the day into
four tides.
Tim
e
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Wearables
Astechnologypermeates
thefabricofourdaily
lives,deviceslikeGoogle
Glassandotherwearable
computersthatareIP
orBluetooth-based
andsyncwith
otherpersonal
devices
willtrackour
timeand
attendance
effortlessly.
Punch ClockThese 20th century, “ink
and card” date stampers
were flawed by issues
like overstamping,
buddy stamping, and
difficult locations.The firstoccupationaltime clockswere made in1888. A timeclock linkedto a PC chipdebuted
in
1979.
THE INCREDIBLY SHRINKING WORK HOUR
Time is a precious human resource. If you can measure it,
you can manage it. So how can you find more of it?
1866
The International Workingmen’s
Association took up the demand for
an eight-hour day at its convention
in Geneva, establishing legal
limitations to the workday.
1848
French workers won the 12-hour day
following the February Revolution of
1848. Early trade unions were established
that resulted in shorter working days and
improved workplace conditions.
1450 A.D.
Medieval farmers and villagers tracked
their time by the sun using bell towers to
recognize breaks including rest and meals.
1810 A.D.
During the PreIndustrial Era,
working 10 to 16 hours, six days
a week was not uncommon.
1833 A.D.
The Factory Act of 1833
was passed to limit the
workday for children
in factories. Children
between the ages of 9–13
were limited to eight
hours a day.
1890
The AFL meeting in St Louis established
May 1, 1890 as the day that American
workers should work no more than eight
hours per day thus starting the tradition
of May Day.
1938
The Fair Labor Standards Act
established a 44 hour work week,
overtime pay, and the type of work
and hours for children under 18.
1990
Output per hour worked (productivity) of
the United States worker tripled the 1900’s.
2005
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, 10.3 million workers in the U.S.
(7.4% of the US workforce) were categorized
as independent contractors.
2010
One Day a Week of “Virtual Work.” The
Internet has opened up many freelance
opportunities, expanded available markets,
and contributed to service sector growth
in many economies. In 2010, 13.4 million
employees in the U.S. alone, worked at
least one day per week virtually.
THE CHANGING FACE OF TIME & THE WORKDAY
THE WORKPLACE IS GETTING FASTER
TIME TRACKING HARNESSES PRODUCTIVITY
For hundreds of thousands of years, our day-to-day tasks—building a fire, hunting a meal,
baking bread, milking a cow—have been a series of minute actions that flow seamlessly and
habitually, into the next; this is hard-wired in us. It’s only in the past 40 or so years that we’ve
imposed an entirely new way of processing information on our unsuspecting brains.
INSTA-BUSINESS
Think Zazzle or Spreadshirt.
Think Personalized. Think
Business “On Demand.”
JUST-IN-TIME BUSINESS
Deliveries scheduled to sync with
production.
1953 Numerical Machine Tools—the first robots
1959 Photocopying at 100 pages a minute
1977 Integrated Circuits & personal computing
1973 Barcode Readers enable scanning
1980 Cell Phones invent mobility
1984 PDAs and Palmtop Devices at hand
1989 Birth of the World Wide Web
1992 CU-SeeMe sparks video meetups
2009 Notebooks out ship desktops
2010 Internet Users—1,800 million
SOURCES: “The Need for Speed,” Neilsen Norman Group; “Web Stress, A Wake Up Call for Business,” Foviance
for CA Wiley;“The 2008 Digital Future Project from 2000 to 2007” USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital
Future, March 2009; “Kelly Global Workforce Index, “ Kelly Services, as cited in Press Release 2009 Mobile Phones,
PDAs, Laptop computers; Money Factoids, http://business.time.com; Wasting Time at Work 2012, Salary.com;
“Time Clock, Timesheet, Time & Attendance,Time Tracking Software,” Wikimedia Foundation, LLC
© 2013-14 All Rights Reserved TSheets, Eagle, Idaho, (888) 836-2720
In the new age of Cloud
Computing, portable time and
project management solutions are
essential to manage, schedule
and monitor employees’ time,
attendance and performance.
Valued workers, be they full-time,
flex-time or contractors, become
untethered and productivity is
unleashed.
A New Era for Employers
and Employees
Internet Access Increasing
Work Performance and
Productivity Since 2000
“The bad news is time flies. The good news
is you’re the pilot.”
Michael Altshuler
3.9
22%are expected to respond
to work email when
they’re not at work.
46%check work email on
sick days.
50%check work email on
the weekends.
34%check work email while
on vacation.
The average cellphone owner
spends about 90 minutes per
day texting, browsing, gaming,
on email and, oh yeah, talking.
That’s 23 days per year—
or 3.9 years in the average
lifetime—spent tapping at
a device.years
“Time is the scarcest
resource and unless it is
managed, nothing else
will be managed.”
Peter F. Drucker
+10%
improved
a lot
-15%
stayed the
same
+4%
improved
somewhat
-1%
worsened
somewhat
SPENDING YEARS ON THAT PHONE
Hallelujah!
POSITION SALARY WASTE/MONTH WASTE/YEAR
15-30%
1% Productivity improvements of
translate to potential
savings of up to
8 Hour Workday Typical Labor Costs
(per employee/year)
5
minutes is
Even better:
$3.6M
Annual payroll of company
with 100 employees
X 1% =$36,000
Amount saved in
5 minutes of labor
$1,000,000
based on 100 employees
of 8 hrs
$12/hr
salary
25%
benefits
$36,000
10% overtime
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Ease of use and access are the keys to harnessing
time and talent via time tracking. For example,
TSheets, a leader in time tracking software, lets
employees tap, type, text, dial, and even tweet
time across the Web from any device, syncing
with payroll and accounting and including Add-On
software like QuickBooks to expedite workflow.
TSheets employee time tracking software lets you
start your day to the sound of “Applause,” then
clock-out to a chorus of
Time for Upward Mobility
BUSINESS EVOLVES FOR VELOCITY
DIGITAL OVERTIME & EMPLOYEES
WORKDAY TIME LOST & FOUND
AGILE BUSINESS
Working in “sprints” not days
and 15 minute “scrums” not
meetings.
LEAN BUSINESS
The model: a perfect value
creation process with zero waste.
SAME-DAY DELIVERY &
BUSINESS BOTS
Robots picking products off shelves.
Same day delivery arrives.
speedy
on-the-job
advances
Entire world predicted to be
online by 2020.
—Dr. Eric Schmidt
31%
( 2013 )
Sm
artphones
and
digital
tablets,
equipped
w
ith
third-party
tim
e
tracking
apps
enter
an
era
of
tim
e
tracking
in
the
cloud;
W
I-FI
enables
em
ployees
to
"clock-in
&
out"
rem
otely.
G
PS-equipped
phones
provide
tracking
of
both
tim
e
and
location.
What is the cost for companies
whose employees cannot
account for 6% (or 10 hours)
of their time each month?
A Wasted Ten
Hours Software Developer $72,000 $346.15 $4,153.85
Financial Advisor $69,100 $332.21 $3,986.54
Tax Accountant $53,800 $258.65 $3,103.85
HR Generalist $48,400 $232.69 $2,792.31
Graphic Designer $47,300 $227.40 $2,728.85