5 Reasons Why You Actually Need a Time Tracker

Where, and, especially, why your time was wasted

If you work hard like 80% of the US employees, maybe you often wonder where your work time has gone. Suddenly you reach the end of the day and wonder why you have accomplished so little. Well, the CrocoTime time tracker can help you. You will know precisely what tasks you (and your employees if you have any) have spent your time on and for how long.

You will find areas of improvement

Having understood where your time has gone, you'll be able to find areas of improvement. Just compare the actual time you spend on every single type of work with what you think is the best amount for each.

The tasks for which the time actually spent exceeds your ideal estimate should become your areas of improvement. This is where your time is wasted. Another important thing that obviously falls into this category is the idle time. Try to minimize your idle time in every possible way.

The same thing goes for activities where the time spent is below your estimate. These are the tasks where you'll be able to improve performance by working more.

You will be able to budget your time

You can go further by budgeting work time for each task in the beginning of the day or in the evening before. In this case, you set a specific amount of time for each task (or customer) and watch yourself not to spend more or less than the allocated time. An automatic time tracker like CrocoTime makes it easy for you to monitor your progress throughout the day.

You will get to a new level of responsibility

There is another advantage of using a time tracker which is not evident at the start. You'll realize it only after you use it for a while. The time tracker gives you a sense of responsibility in using your work time. For what? Because you must report your work usage. It is as if you must report your time usage to your manager, only in this case the manager is you.

You will become more focused

Using the time tracker, you'll get accustomed to clearly stating the goal for each period of time while working. For instance, you say that this time is the time to read professional literature you can track it into your time tracker. The time tracker will then start counting this time you spend in reading professional literature. Since you have a clear goal in your mind, you will be more focused on it. Now you know exactly what you have to do!