The construction industry is a labor-intensive field, with multiple contractors and skilled workers engaged in the job site at any given time. For subcontracting company leaders, project managers, field supervisors, and payroll staff, this means hours of time tracking, labor management, and payment processing for each and every member
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How to Calculate Labor Utilization
Labor Utilization Calculator
Before getting started, we wanted to offer an easy way into the concept of labor utilization with this useful online labor utilization calculator, which will be broken down in this article.
How to Eliminate Timesheet Fraud
Discover effective strategies to eliminate timesheet fraud, understand its consequences, and learn how SmartBarrel’s time tracking software can safeguard your projects.
What is Timesheet Fraud?
Timesheet fraud is when employees at organizations that allow them to enter information regarding attendance into timesheets intentionally manipulate the data. Most of these businesses
Preparing for Kronos Workforce Central End of Life
The start of 2025 will come with the departure of Kronos Workforce Central. The workforce management software, commonly used by many industries for employee scheduling, payroll, and time and attendance control, will meet its end of life, so it’s about time to start looking for its replacement. The retirement of
5 Ways SmartBarrel Reduces Stress and Keeps Your Projects on Track
Are you sick of the everyday work challenges that seem to pop up each time you think a situation is under control? The never-ending paperwork pile-up, tedious compliance risks, or uncertainty around your workers’ labor hours–that’s just the beginning for you. When will the stress end? How can you keep
Top 5 Timekeeping Tricks for Cost Saving in Construction Projects
Do your construction project costs always seem to be on the rise, and your timelines are often spiralling out of control more than you’d like to admit? It’s your outdated timekeeping system wreaking havoc on your productivity and exposing you to time theft. Your manual paper timesheets just aren’t hacking
5 Proven Ways Automated Time Tracking Helps You Earn More on Every Construction Project
Confidence. It can take you a long way. Not only in the construction industry but in life itself. When do you feel the most confident, is it when you’re thrust into a situation with very little background information to go on? When it feels like the deck is against you,
Why Time Tracking Solutions Should Be an Overhead Expense
Time tracking solutions should be considered just like the other tools we can’t operate profitably without. We can’t operate without vehicles and telephones, so we consider them overhead expenses we can’t avoid. For some of us, however, time tracking solutions seem like an expense we can avoid by just doing
From Construction Data Collection to AI: Where Do You Start?
With all the recent talk about artificial intelligence and leveraging construction data, you may be wondering exactly what the fuss is all about. Is it worth it to jump on the bandwagon? If your goals are saving money, increasing efficiency, more accurate estimates, and increased profits, then the answer is …
Choosing the Right Time Tracking Solution: A Buyer’s Guide
Accurate time tracking is vital for construction contractors. Labor drives production and informs material ordering, billing, and, eventually, profits. Even in today’s technology-rich society, many contractors still rely on paper timesheets from decades gone by. When making the leap to more modern systems, or upgrading an existing system, there is …