Track Time to Know Where It Goes

There are lots of reasons to track time, but one of the main reasons is to simply find out where the time goes! Once you know that, you can improve the productivity and efficiency in your organization and make better business decisions for the future.

If you want to jump right in, here's a high-level overview of the tasks:

Administrators

First steps for setting up Tempo Timesheets - Set up Tempo for your organization with some basic but important steps, such as giving your organization access to Tempo Timesheets and setting key permissions.
Creating workload schemes and Creating holiday schemes - Define the working capacity for employees by creating these two types of schemes.
Creating and configuring Internal issues - Internal issues let your employees track time on non-work activities such as vacation, sickness, or company meetings.
Setting up timesheet periods for approvals - Set up a reporting period and scheduler to implement the timesheet approval process.
Configuring Logging Time options - Set up the default Log Time form for your organization.
Creating work attributes for customized time logging - Work attributes let your employees to log their time to special categories, such as Overtime or Travel time.

Managers

Creating Tempo Accounts and Creating Tempo Account Categories - Create accounts for organizing logged time into different categories.
Creating Tempo Teams - Create Tempo teams to group your employees. If you're an HR manager, you can do this for your whole organization.
Tempo Team Permissions - Grant and manage permissions for your team.
Approving or Rejecting Timesheets - Review and approve the timesheets of your team members. The timesheet approval process needs to be set up for this to happen.
Logged Time Reports - Run a Logged Time report on your team's logged time, total time spent on a project, or whatever else you need to find out.
Planned vs Actual Reports - If you also have Tempo Planner installed, run a Planned vs Actual report to compare planned and logged time for a project. Very useful for making better estimates for future projects!

Team Members

Logging Your Time - Log time to your projects and other things in many different ways.
Connecting Your External Calendars - Connect your Google or Office 365 Calendar to My Work for quick time logging to calendar events, such as meetings.
Planning Your Time in My Work - Plan your working week directly in My Work. If the plan becomes reality, it's easy to log time to it.
Setting Your Working Hours in My Work and Customizing what's in the issue picker - Customize My Work to streamline your time logging flow.
Submitting Timesheets for Approval - When a reporting period is over, you submit your timesheet for approval to your team lead or manager. The timesheet approval process needs to be set up for this to happen.