Project-based Attendance Tracking offers a more detailed insight into productivity of Employees using Personal computers by directly linking time to specific projects and tasks.
With Project-based tracking, time is recorded based on the tasks employees work on, providing a clearer picture of their productivity and contributions to different projects.
This method is particularly beneficial for organizations looking to monitor project progress and efficiently allocate resources.
Setup and Utilization
If you decided to use Project based Attendance tracking, here are some steps to get you started and to get real-time employee data displayed on Admin dashboards.
Admin step
Admins can enable Project-based tracking, they can add tasks independently and they can allow Employees to start and stop task timers.
To enable the Project-based tracking scenario please follow these steps:
Go to Settings.
Select Tracking Settings.
Select the Project based tracking scenario.
Next, you will need to create a project:
Go to the Projects dashboard.
Click the Add New Project button in the upper right corner and assign employees.
This way, the first project and Add new Task button will appear on the employee widget. You can optionally create tasks for an employee and assign them yourself.
Make sure that the Allow Employees to Add new Tasks option is checked if you wish to enable employees to add Tasks themselves. This can be found under the Settings page, by clicking on the 3 dots on the right side of Personal Computers Settings.
User/Employee step
Instead of Clock-In and Clock-Out, attendance data will be based on the time frame employees spend on Tasks during the day. In order for Insightful to get the attendance data, employees need to manually Start/Stop the Task timer whenever they are working on any. Employees can also add new Tasks if the desired task is not currently listed.
Learn more about Time Tracking for Projects in the video below:
Difference between Project-based and Manual Attendance tracking
There are many similarities between Project-based and Manual attendance tracking scenarios but there are some key differences. To review the comparison in detail please read this article.