Time Tracking
Basics
4 articles.
For a vendor-side perspective, Monitask also has a page on time tracking software.
What Time Tracking Is Actually For
Six legitimate purposes, and the one that is usually the real motivation. Choosing which you are doing determines everything else.
Tracking Time Against Measuring People
The same data serves two purposes that pull in opposite directions. Which one you are doing determines whether the numbers stay true.
What to Track, and What Not to Bother With
Category design decides whether the data answers anything. How many categories, which ones, and the entry that reveals everything.
Why Time Data Is Almost Always Wrong
Every dataset has known biases in known directions. Which errors you have, how large they are, and how to use imperfect data anyway.
For broader independent background, see NIST Privacy Framework.