“Not just the VOC” series, Part I or: “the goat ate my timesheet”

A Painting contractors problem with time keeping
Paint Contractors use paint and they should mind their “chemicals”, it goes without saying.
For a company to be environmentally responsible, all business activities have to be seriously examined and if necessary changed. Ecopainting Inc, well known Toronto Painters, had a major problem in their hands, more like a bottleneck. Time keeping of most contracting companies is traditionally done with time sheets. They are distributed every pay period and employees are to complete them accurately with their daily activities.
At the end of the pay period they are sent to the office, where they are checked against the labour budget and they are also used for payroll. The Toronto Painting Contractor had two major problems with this process and its implementation.
- Problem one was the accuracy of this archaic record keeping. Painters would routinely forget to record their times and as a result do it at the end of the pay period from memory. Also job site addresses would be incorrect and yes sometimes time-sheets would be lost, washed with the laundry, torn, etc. Major babysitting headaches became the norm.
- Another problem was the paperwork created. Ecopainting is an eco-friendly painting contractor and creating this much paper work was unacceptable.
Enter T-Sheets. T-Sheets is an online time and labour management service that promises to save time and money with an effective time tracking system and of course without all the paper being wasted. Too good to be true?
After investigating and trying the system, the decision was made to embrace technology and go all out with it. Job managers were provided with iphones and messy paper recording of time cards are now a thing of the past. In addition to that, T-Sheets intergrates with the Accounting and Payroll system of Ecopainting.
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