Employee time tracking is one of the most important aspects to tracking and managing a construction project, yet the vast majority of contractors are still using manual methods to track labour hours. These manual time tracking methods continue to cost contractors significant amounts of money throughout their project lifecycles and many construction managers still don’t realize it.

Luckily, new technology innovations aimed at automating arduous processes like this have arrived to help the industry modernize time tracking practices across the board.

Great question! And for some, your initial thought here might be something like:

“Time tracking? You mean plugging in your hours worked into some paper/spreadsheet or basic software application? Thats so easy. Who cares!”

But that’s where you would be making a huge mistake by overlooking this.

For decades, contractors have been tracking field team hours using simple and fully manual methods. This could include getting workers to fill in a paper timesheet at the end of their day/week or letting them do the same thing using a digital timesheet instead. This practice has simply turned into the status quo in the industry and many managers continue to remain completely oblivious to how much money these methods are actually costing their businesses.

So how much money are we talking here?

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