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| August 2, 2018

3 Ways You’re Failing at Optimizing Labor Output With Your Employee Time Tracking Solution

BLOG 3 Ways Ur Failing to Optimize Your Labor

3 Ways You’re Failing at Optimizing Labor Output With Your Employee Time Tracking Solution

By Shannon Corgan, Director of Marketing

Labor is typically the biggest expense on projects. To make your projects profitable, you not only have to manage your labor hours, you also need to look at what your employees have completed on the job site. Managing your labor hours and what they’ve completed is even more challenging when you have a mobile workforce. With mobile employees, it’s difficult to get progress information as quickly as you need to keep your project on schedule and on budget.
If you’re not tracking production units with your mobile employee time tracking solution these 3 ways, you’re failing at optimizing your labor output:

Enter Production Units By Employee
Track and Measure Production By Employee – Do you suspect that one employee might be carrying the load on a crew and you might have some underperformers slowing down the whole crew? If you’re running multiple projects at the same time, it’s difficult to know if everyone is being as productive as they could be without being on the job site watching the employees all the time. If you’re tracking production units per employee, you can use it as a motivational tool by using historical averages of production units completed per employee on similar jobs and offer bonuses for the employees that are above average performers. Some construction projects have payouts or accelerator bonuses that are paid when projects hit milestones early or complete a project ahead of schedule. By tracking your production units from the employee, you can drive your employees’ behavior and get more done on a project each day. When you measure production units completed by each employee virtually in real time, you’re better able to manage your project to profitability.

Optimize Staffing with Employee Time Tracking SolutionOptimize Staffing Levels to Keep Project On Schedule – If you’re not tracking the production units in near real time with your employee time tracking solution, it’s difficult to know when you need to add additional temporary workers or pull employees from another job to keep your project on schedule. If you’re relying on spreadsheets or paper daily progress reports, you’re making future decisions based on old information. When you’re tracking production units in near real time, you know if you’re falling behind on the scheduled tasks for the day and can request additional workers to keep your project on schedule. You’re making decisions right now based on what’s happening right now. Your supervisors will know if they need to bring in additional employees to stay on schedule. If they’re ahead of the production schedule, they could also decide to cut the hours of some of the staff to reduce labor costs. By knowing what’s produced in near real time, supervisors can right-size their staffing levels to keep their projects on schedule. 

 

Enter Production Units by CrewTrack and Measure Crew and Supervisor Performance – Your supervisors can track the production units completed by their crew each day or whenever his/her employees change their tasks or activities for the day. The supervisor can enter the crew’s production units in near real time so that everyone in the field and in the office knows what’s been accomplished. By tracking production units by crews, you can compare crews against other crews completing similar tasks to see how well your foremen or supervisors are managing their crews. Good friendly competition among the supervisors and crews can motivate staff to be even more productive and keep your projects profitable and on schedule. You might even see more projects come in under budget and completed before your project scheduled deadlines. You can also identify top performing supervisors and foreman and have them share their best practices to get your crews to accomplish more on the job site each day.

 

WorkMax TIME is the only cloud-based employee time tracking solution that makes it easy to track what’s being completed on the job site without being there from any mobile device anywhere. With WorkMax TIME, you can measure individual employee performance and the performance of your supervisors or foreman to make decisions virtually in real time as employees are completing tasks on the job site. By tracking production units by crew or employee, you can right-size your staffing and know your projects will be profitable before the project is completed.

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