The Case For Automating Manual Time Tracking
The benefits might be great, but they are not obvious
In business there's probably not much more important than the time it takes to complete a task. Tracking employee time has a long history. Check the history of time clocks in Wikipedia, you'll learn that the founding companies of IBM made the first mechanical punch time clocks, and how more sophisticated devices like proximity, badge swipe or biometric time clocks later came into use. What it does not tell you is how slow the marketplace has been to adopt new technology in time tracking. Why? Because what's tried, true and proven is difficult to replace from the standpoint of 1) cost 2) risk and 3) inertia.