Employee tracking software

Employee tracking software is an instrument used to control performance of workers over their business schedules, delegated productivity expectations, daily duties, responsibilities on company’s strategic plans, etc. Every effective employee tracking system works as a sole virtual environment (interconnecting employees and superiors) deployed over the corporate network (LAN) when used in a team collaborating in single office, or over the Internet when used in a virtual teams of multiple distanced co-workers. Such software can comprise the following technological and methodical elements and templates (let’s consider these things using specific example – VIP Task Manager that can be successfully employed by SME):

• Calendar – it is an electronic time-grid tool which ensures convenient visual representation of project tasks and events (project time mapping), and provides you with the following helpful features:
  • Sharing and coordinating individual working schedules of multiple co-workers in order to get a sole consolidated overview of the team workflow;
  • Sharing and exposing project timelines (chronology of deliverance and tasks) to ensure proper staff awareness and engagement;
  • Reviewing that calendar to check for procrastinations of personal tasks and preventing delays on major project deadlines (milestones);
  • Switching between different Calendar modes and scales of time grid (VIP Task Manager offers you Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly regimes to deliver you a complete picture of calendar-displayable matters);

• Work sheet – this is an agile and sharable spreadsheet that gives you a checklist-like capture of project’s tasks, objectives, activities, etc. Good employee tracking system enables the following benefits:
  • Forming up a job sheet of tasks (according to certain settings) to inspect current statuses of ongoing working efforts and duties;
  • Getting general a project report to know job cost, time parameters and other work-related indicators of individuals to incorporate them into a more high-level overview (level of sub-stages, phases, projects, etc);
  • Getting sectioned overview of tasks to track working achievements by departments, specific staff members, business functions, customers, dates, etc;
  • Creating, saving, and sharing templates. VIP Task Manager provides you with special interface layouts helping you to quickly switch into certain review framework: let’s say enabling you to track tasks of certain type only, in certain departments; 

• Tree-like template – this kind of tool is usually called “task tree” as it allows outlining business tasks along with showing their reference to some categories and levels (such as projects, stages and sub-stages, business processes, departments, etc). The best employee tracking software gives you the following features:
  • Sectioning (planning, scheduling, and categorizing) major workloads and assignments on structured and hierarchal tree-like chart showing relations between working components (WBS);
  • Controlling and monitoring delegated workloads in context of different projects and stages, business processes, departments, etc;
  • Controlling employee deliverance with regard to working milestones, costs, time, products; 

VIP Task Manager is software that provides all the mentioned features and can perfectly work for needs of small and medium businesses. This is not free product, but it offers moderate prices and free trial version (30 days), real-time support services, and tons of methodical materials on the web-site.