Information Communication Technology sky rocketed in the past few decades. Today we can pay out taxes, shop for goods and services, pay bills and many more while resting in sofa with Smartphone or a tablet. If you can do all those stuff there is nothing stopping you from working at home without going to office.
Lots of big players are encouraging its staff to work at home. And yeah, it’s saving fuel, time stress and possible improved productivity as well. IN order to get this done you need very sophisticated communication and monitoring system.
When it comes to communication we have email, file sharing systems, skype and any many other services for video calling. But what can we do for monitoring. Big players have their own custom made project management tools. If you are a small company what can you do to monitor work-at-home staff?
Here comes the solution!
Getting Started with Time Doctor
Time doctor is an online service letting you to monitor your off office staff. It’s providing very comprehensive set of features as well as highly customizable reporting tools. Let’s go and get hands on.
From Your End
- Go to TimeDoctor.com and create a account by entering name, email and password.
- It will take you to main dashboard. As usual lets pay a visit to settings.
- Go to company settings and enter appropriate data. There you can create a vanity URL for your company and set screenshot time interval.
- Then go to project setting and add relevant details there.
- Then go to manage users and add your staff in to your company.
From Employees End
- Click on the invitation link and follow instruction.
- During the process he has to download Time Doctor client and sign in.
- Then when working all he has to do is enter the task, select the project and hit GO.
- While he is working software will monitor his activity and send details including periodic screenshots to your account.
- And it will generate appropriate alerts to make him more productive.
- Whenever he want to take a break, must hit the break button and then it will stop monitoring.
- End of the day click finish work and sign off.
It’s all set! Now you can monitor productivity of your work-at-home staff easily. Time Doctor is providing you high customizable report generation tool. So you can get any time of information you need in matter of seconds.
TimeDoctor has several plans depending on the size of your company. Every plan comes with 30 day trial. Give it a try and let me know what you think about it.
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