Is it normal for a company to ask you to track every minute of your day?
Is it normal for a company to ask you to track every minute of your day in an application (Salesforce, adp, TargetProcess, etc) Friend mention they are required to account for every minute of their day in their tool and it must add up to 8hrs or it is assumed they are slacking off. This is a tech company non developer full time salary position, but even developers have to do it also but that is a little bit easier since they don't switch projects as much. Still seems excessive, over bearing and very dated micromanagement style of management. Just wanted to see how many companies out there do this and is it common? The only job I had that required a punch clock was a retail part time job.
This sounds hellish
This sounds terrible. First warning flag to GTFO
I agree. I told them it sounded like a sweatshop and not a good sign.
there had to have been more signs beforehand. this doesn’t just happen.
Quit the job once you find a better one.
Lmao half of blind would be laid off if forced to use this tool
god forbid they allow remote work.
Why is that bad?
Adding up to 8 hours is weird. They should have a utilization target closer to 70-80%
Yeah that sounds totally normal🙄
Government contracts require all time tracking to the tenth of an hour (6 minute increments). We are regularly audited internally and 3rd party and timecard lying is probably the quickest way to get fired
what’s the second quickest way?
Hard to say what’s #2. Seems like other Ethics violations (fraud wast abuse harassment) or Classified security violations. Both will get the boot pretty quick.
Had a similar setup. Used to fill for the whole month on the last day with fake data.
Had to do this when I worked at Microsoft. I was a support engineer so you had to track time on each case so you could bill the customer for each minute you spent helping them solve their problems. The goal was to have at least 6 billable hours per day. I think lots of professional services are run the same way.
This makes sense for the support engineer roles.
only in call centers or production lines.