An English nobleman and writer once said that “time is what we want most, but what we use worst”. Everyone can relate to this sentiment, and I certainly face this challenge on a daily basis. It’s seemingly impossible to get everything done on time, while more and more tasks pile up. All this is even truer for companies, both big and small. Time equals money. Thus, the highest priority for companies is to allocate time efficiently and understand how that time is being spent. That’s why some really cool companies have popped up to start helping us out with this age old problem. What they all have in common is this – they know that we all have limited time, and that we value this time. Their goal is to help us use this time in the best and most efficient way possible.
1. Replicon
The Replicon website has a great line – “the ability to intelligently use their time is what sets exceptional companies apart”. Replicon found out that 1,000 people equals around 2 million hours. But there’s a catch. You’ll only get those 2 million hours if you utilize the time properly – that’s where they come in. Replicon is obsessed with time with products called TimeBill, TimeCost, and TimeAttend. They take a really professional approach to time management and designed themselves to work for large companies. Replicon helps professional services teams align their entire workflow and smoothen the entire process of running a company.
2. Timely
This Norwegian company Timely developed a fully automatic time tracking solution. It works by improving timesheet accuracy, increasing project profitability, and optimizing team performance. The tool works on nearly every device under the sun, which is great in a world where everyone is constantly on the move. Time is timely’s biggest obsession (as their name suggests). Timely wants to make the process of time management as intuitive and straightforward as possible. What sets Timely apart is that it wants to make the time management task automatic – and it seems to be doing that extremely well.
3. Time Doctor
This Las Vegas-based company wants to increase your productivity by at least 22% by making sure you’re using your time in the best possible way. They also claim that people already using their tool save an average of $37,000 a year in lost time. If that’s not enough incentive to start managing your time better, then I don’t know what is. There are already 83,000 people using Time Doctor, which is not surprising for such a great tool. It combines time use tracking, powerful reports, and integrations with almost anything. All in all, a great company whose goal is to make you and your business more focused and increase your productivity. Highly recommended!
4. WebWork Time Tracker
WebWork Time Tracker takes a simpler approach to time management and employee time tracking. Its offer is straightforward and includes features such as screenshots, activity level monitoring, online reports, activity descriptions, and billable hours. The app is also able to distinguish between time spent on entertainment, social media, and actual work. It is surprising to see how much time you spend on things that aren’t actual work.
5. Wrike
If you need a professional, all-in-one, cloud-based project and time management solution, Wrike is your best bet. Wrike has a few goals in mind: to simplify planning, to streamline workflow, to gain visibility, and to enable collaboration. These aren’t just “nice to haves” but crucial elements of a successful company. Wrike doesn’t want you to spread your work across ten different tools and so it helps you organize everything you need in one place. It also combines automation and sophisticated analysis and management technologies to help you run your company. This Silicon Valley company says it best – keep your priorities straight and your goals in sight. That’s what Wrike does best.
6. WiseTime
This cool company takes a more niche approach to time management by focusing on legal professionals. It also does things differently by making the whole process autonomous. WiseTime captures every minute you work in your private timeline and allocates it to the correct client and case. This means that as a legal professional there won’t be any manual tracking and no thinking about timekeeping. The whole process is seamless and the tool integrates with a variety of billing systems so that you don’t have to change the way you work. It also does a great job of helping you manage teams and in general, makes your life a bit less stressful. What more can you ask for?
7. TeamWork
Teamwork is trusted by some of the world’s leading brands, such as Disney, Paypal, eBay, Spotify, HP, and Honda, as well as many small teams and solopreneurs, so naturally I think it would make a great addition to the list.
8. TimeCamp
A simple, yet powerful free time tracking program to stay on top of work. Ideal for professionals across all industries for team time tracking. TimeCamp is an essential management tool that gives you clear insight into a project’s efficiency and helps to avoid an overblown workload for your team.
Bonus Tool
ProofHub
ProofHub is a highly functional and easy-to-use project management and team collaboration tool that also offers an inbuilt time tracking software. Using ProofHub, teams of any size can easily track the time they are spending on different tasks. Using ProofHub, you can add multiple Timesheets and use them for payroll, estimation, client billing, and time management. You can set time estimates for each time, track time manually or using timers, and create custom time reports of people and projects in one central place. More than 85,000 teams and businesses across the globe use and trust ProofHub to make their work processes more efficient by efficiently utilizing time. ProofHub is an all-in-one solution for teams that are looking to manage various aspects of their work (time management, task management, file management, communication, etc.) through a single tool. ProofHub offers flat-rate pricing, which makes it an ideal solution for small teams on a limited budget.
