Custom Time Clock Software: Mobile Solutions for the Construction Industry
Gain Added Efficiency By Customizing Your Mobile Time Clock Software
Tailoring mJobTime’s Custom Time Clock Software To Meet The Special Needs of Your Business
At mJobTime, we have focused on giving our customers a large number of configuration options to make our application as flexible as possible. However, software programs are designed to accommodate the maximum number of companies possible. We realize that there are going to be situations where mJobTime may not address certain facets of your business processes, but we ultimately strive to provide employee time clock solutions that will be unique to every business.
We look upon these situations as opportunities. This is because we love to get input from our customers about our time clocks for construction as well as our other software. Many times, this input can lead to a new feature or functionality that becomes a standard part of the program. Oftentimes, when the amount of work and time involved is not significant, we will do the work at no charge. Even in those situations where there is a substantial amount of resources required to do the work, if we feel it will improve the product, we often will share the cost of the modification with the customer. In those situations where the customization is very unique to a customer, we will provide a quote for the work and allow the customer to make their own decision.
Whatever the case, our development team has earned quite a reputation for doing outstanding work in a reasonable time period. They will work with you to get a detailed understanding of your needs, propose a solution, develop and test the solution, and follow-up to insure that our employee time clock solutions are working as intended once released. Our customers constantly rave about the amount of time we have saved them with our modifications. Usually, the ROI on our customizations is very short.
Whether it’s a special report or a very specific way to calculate travel or per diem pay, our crackerjack development staff is always ready to meet your custom modification challenges. They thrive on being able to make mJobTime (and our time clocks for construction) meet even your most stringent and unique requirements.
mJobTime Mobile Time Clock Software Customization Examples
- Allow customer to clock in crews with equipment attached, but only post the equipment to one employee’s time card (not the entire crew).
- Allow Supervisor user to transfer individual existing time records to a different company, verifying that all (pronoun) time record fields are valid in the “transfer-to” company, and disabling transfers for “Approved” and
“Exported” records. - Add a new labor report for commercial drivers with the following columns:
- Last Name
- First Name
- Position
- Last Day Off
- Next Mandated Day Off
- Total Hours since Last Day Off
- Hours Remaining (in the cycle)
- Create a delimited file of time and material for our customer to send to their customer, and as a second customization, generate an invoice in their customer’s format.
- Modify our Weekly Time Entry screen to allow for daily distribution of time by sub-job.
- Create new functions to facilitate entry, tracking, and calculation of per diem and travel pay for employees on jobs:
- Allow users to enter per diem and travel rates per job
- Allow users to enter per diem and travel transactions
- Allow administrative users to export per diem and travel transactions to “Bank File” and “Timberline Export”.
- Customize the mJobTime Crew feature to track:
- Day or night shift per crew
- Craft code per employee
- Alternate employee ID per employee
- Per diem code per employee
- Travel code per employee
- Modify the export to accounting to create a text file export and add special calculations described below:
- Specifications
- A maximum of 40 hours per week will be exported for salaried employees
- Salaried employees will be identified by a field in the employee table.
- Time records beyond the 40 hour limit will remain in mJobTime and will be flagged as “exported”.
- For time records that include task codes beginning with “41” populate the “GL Exp Acct” field as follows:
- The second segment of the task code
- Followed by the employee’s department number (two-digit-zero-filled)
- The employee’s dept number will be pulled from a field in the employee table Examples: “500503”, “500603”
- Develop a custom version of the “Daily Time Sheet Entry by Employee” screen:
- To include a five-row header,
- Make the Job Number column header span all columns for the same job.
- As new columns are added, insert them into the grid sorted in ascending order by Job Number, then by the last five digits of the Cost Code, then by Extra.
- Remove color shading of alternate rows in grid and add a solid line between rows
- Shade “REG”, “OVT”, and “DBL” columns in White/Lt Blue/Dark Blue
- Increase allowable distribution columns to 30
- Divide the “Total” column into “REG”, “OVT”, and “DBL” sub-columns and display the appropriate totals for each row broken down into the three Pay IDs.
- Replace the “Save” button acknowledgement dialog with the following custom dialog:
- “Entries will be recorded with the following Date: ##/##/####”
- Allow user to click “OK” or “Cancel”
- Allow users to save selected distribution columns for multiple jobs and have them default whenever a job is selected for time entry.
- Add Edit, Review, and Approve functions to the Daily Time Entry screen.
Let us provide you with a personalized demo today. As you can see, a custom time clock from mJobTime can supply your business with many helpful resources.
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12 Ways To Improve Construction Employee Productivity
Tracking
Research shows that construction industry productivity has remained flat for several years. This can have a negative impact on project management efforts.
One way project managers in the construction industry can improve the productivity of their workers is to use effective employee productivity tracking methods. This will enable project managers to identify which workers and tasks are causing productivity to lag. With this insight, they can design ways to properly address the issues and improve productivity on the construction projects they are responsible for managing. Using productivity tracking tools is fast and easy.
Breaking the Cycle
Many construction industry project managers say the productivity problem is now a cycle in which limited output has become the norm. Not long ago, workers were motivated to exceed construction industry productivity expectations. They took pride in being able to do the job faster and better than their managers thought was possible.
Now project managers have to find ways to break the cycle of flat-lining quality and quantity of work. Construction site time clocks make it easier for project managers to collect the data they need, but they still need to translate that into positive behavior in the workplace. Construction companies can break this cycle using a construction labor tracking system as part of their overall productivity approach.
1. Employ Project Management Technology
There are many applications project managers in the construction industry can use to find good, effective solutions to flat-lining employee productivity. These easy-to-use apps keep the entire team focused on task management and on the same page. The applications can provide an overview of a construction project that shows who is doing what, as well as how quickly workers are completing their assigned tasks. Project management technology tools can help to keep employees on task by defining which worker must do which job. They can also help manage expectations, make everyone aware of key deadlines, and create open lines of communication related to the project.
2. Regularly Check In With The Workers
You may find regularly checking in with workers feels like you are attempting to micro-manage them. In reality, daily check-ins let employees know you care about the quality and quantity of their work performance and want to be aware of, and do anything you can to enhance, their productivity.
Ask workers:
- What they have accomplished each day
- If they are on track to attain their goals in the allotted time frame
- What obstacles are preventing them from making faster progress
- What you can do to help them eliminate the obstacles.
This not only helps with employee productivity; it’s an excellent way to increase morale and show support for your workers.
3. Focus On Results
The productivity of your team will increase when they see your focus is on the results produced and not on hours worked. When workers think project managers are only focused on the number of hours they work each day, they may find ways to waste time until it’s time to clock out. On the other hand, if you make it clear you want specific tasks to be completed each day and workers can leave early and get full pay if they successfully complete those tasks, productivity will skyrocket. Employees will gladly work harder and faster if they know doing their assigned tasks quickly and properly enables them to go home early and still get a full day’s pay. Mobile biometric time tracking solutions can help eliminate “buddy punching,” and GPS tracking can tell you where and when workers clock in.
4. Set Clear Expectations
When workers have clear goals and expectations, it’s easy for them to be much more productive. Set clear, specific, measurable, realistic, and attainable goals for each employee and team, and communicate them clearly. This lets workers know exactly what they have to do to be successful. The clarity of purpose and expectations enables and encourages workers to be more productive. Their focus becomes doing their task and helping their team and the organization attain their overall goals in the least time possible so they can earn more money in less time and learn new skills.
5. Track Performance
Tracking and recording the excellent work of an employee is the ultimate way to measure success. When it comes to effective employee productivity tracking, monitoring how well and how quickly an individual performs their duties is much more important than the number of hours they put in. It reveals if they are meeting and exceeding the goals you have set for them and their team. Fast, high-quality performance is productivity’s very definition. So monitoring and tracking each worker’s performance in real-time to capture what they are accomplishing and to provide support to workers unable to reach their performance goals is essential.
6. Be Transparent With All Your Communications
Be upfront, honest, and clear when communicating with your employees. When everyone is clear about their roles, the organization’s goals, and how the two work together, it is much easier and more likely they will be as productive as possible. When workers know their goals and objectives, how their performance will be tracked, and why the entire team needs to work together to achieve a common goal, their productivity is more likely to increase. Plus, having a clear understanding of their role and the expectations the team has for them makes workers more focused, confident, self-assured, and productive.
7. Reward The Quality And The Quantity Of People’s Work
When instituting systems to measure worker productivity, it’s important to be able to measure the quality of their work as well. A truly productive employee not only does a high volume of work, they do it well. Employ a system that recognizes and rewards both the quality and the quantity of the work an employee produces. One employee may do more work than another, but the quality of their work may not be as good. Using a system that rewards them both and provides feedback on ways to improve the quality and quantity of their work can take the productivity level on the job to new heights.
8. Use Positive Reinforcement Practices
Happy workers tend to be more productive. Project managers that take the time to praise and reward workers who do good work find more of their staff improves the quality and quantity of their work. Employees love when their managers publicly acknowledge they appreciate the excellent work members of their team and the team as a whole does. It’s not only money that motivates workers to be more productive. Pride in the work, as well as the compassion and gratitude of their employers and managers, also help. Managers and employers who treat their workers with respect and offer help rather than blame when errors occur usually have happier, more productive workers.
9. Measure And Monitor Both Short-Term and Long-Term Goals
Tracking construction workers’ productivity levels can be used to help both the project manager and the employee. Tracking specific key short-term and long-term performance indicators and sharing the information privately with workers periodically helps them see and appreciate their growth or times when their performance and productivity may have slipped a little. Seeing the small accomplishments and growth they had along the way can help to keep employees motivated and engaged in their personal and professional growth. It shows them the impact the tasks they do every day have on their skill level.
10. Give Both Work And Personal Development Goals
Giving employees goals related to both their jobs and their professional development shows you care about them as people and want to see them improve their skills. That makes them more valuable to the company, increases their earning power, and enhances their ability to take care of themselves and their loved ones. When workers see you want the best for them, it enhances their desire to be more productive and to put more time, energy, and skill into the tasks you assign to them. Your efforts to measure their performance can help improve their productivity.
11. Privately Point Out How They Can Improve
Measuring employee performance can help improve their productivity, identify top performers, and reveal which workers can benefit from extra help. After gathering the information on employee performance, meet with each worker privately to praise them for their skills and productivity and show them areas where they need to spend extra time to become more skilled, productive, and valuable personally and to the organization. Praise them in public and offer them help to improve in private. Workers appreciate this and tend to become more productive when treated that way.
12. Provide Regular, Honest Feedback
Let workers know you are using a productivity tracking system to monitor the amount and quality of their work and give them feedback on how they can be better at their jobs. Communicating honestly and openly with them about the goals of the productivity tracking system will enhance their level of trust, boost their morale, and increase their productivity. Providing regular feedback on what the tracking system reveals, acknowledging their positive achievements, and offering support, training, and help when they need it individually and collectively, can make the productivity of your team soar.
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Construction companies across the world have leveraged various tools to increase construction employee productivity. To learn more about how a comprehensive system can improve the productivity of your construction employees, consider requesting a demonstration.