It’s About Time! The Journyx Blog

Sixteen years ago — following in my father’s footsteps, albeit somewhat by accident — I became a project manager. Many of the things I learned in that challenging role have helped me succeed as I’ve moved into different roles: product management, engineering management, product and marketing operations, and eventually operating the bulk of a small company. One thing I learned as a project manager that has stuck with me is the importance of crisply defining success for any particular project or task. Read More

Do you pride yourself on your ability to multi-task? As it turns out, there’s actually no such thing: multi-tasking is impossible, because our brains are only meant to process one task at a time at full capacity. What we’re actually doing is known as “context-switching” (or switching between different tasks). So, when we think we’re being productive by trying to complete two tasks at once, we’re actually doing ourselves more harm than good. Read More

Implementing and rolling out any new software can be stressful, especially if it’s around an activity that your employees don’t enjoy doing to begin with. As we’ve mentioned here several times before, employees hate filling out timesheets, so it’s first important to take steps to empower them and make it easy. This will go a long way towards helping you select a timesheet software solution. Read More

Companies ask their employees to track time for a variety of reasons. Each group that uses the time information from employee timesheets has some unique requirements and challenges based on what they need to do with the data. Project managers have specific needs for tracking project time in a way that makes monitoring work and making adjustments as efficient as possible. Read More

This is a guest post by Darrel Raynor, President/CEO, Data Analysis & Results, Inc. In today’s face-paced workplace, we are all asked to do more with less. Is that really the most efficient strategy? Here we define the resource allocation problem along with its myths. We then discuss parts of the challenge and how to address each part to relieve the stress of having too much to do! Read More

Typically, the two biggest concerns your accounting team has are accurately billing your customers, and effectively and efficiently paying your employees.  Your client invoicing drives the revenue of the organization and enables the company to grow.  Paying your employees accurately and on time keeps them happy, keeps you compliant and more importantly, rewards your employees for the hard work and value they provide to the organization. Read More

According to a recent study we conducted in partnership with MSDynamicsWorld.com, 74% of participants report working most of their time within software applications – not surprising, since so much of our work today is technology-driven. However, when it comes time to fill out and complete your timesheet, shouldn’t your time spent working in these applications be somehow logged in your timesheet…automatically? Read More

New privacy and data protection laws come in to force on May 25th, 2018 – are you ready yet? If you handle sensitive personal information, then you need to be compliant with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GPDR). Read More

As a controller or director of finance, you direct all the financial and accounting operations of a company to ensure profitability is maintained. This includes: Analyzing financial performance against key business metrics. Documenting pertinent financial highlights that enable management to determine progress against budgets. Identifying, investigating, and analyzing potential operational improvement, and making proposals based on findings for operation changes. Read More

Timesheets are such a mundane part of our work day, and in fact, many employees dislike filling out their timesheets completely. While tracking time on work is, in fact, essential for driving payroll, billing, and project management/accounting processes, employees give it the side-eye of disdain for one simple reason: it takes too much time. Read More