At an organization level tracking daily work reports helps to understand the work bifurcation and aids to manage the project status at one platform. Also it provides clear understanding of time management of an individual level for further work assigning in the team.

So, the tracking work reports only helps the management or the employee as well? Lets talk about it…

At employee level its always have a mixed views about tracking the daily work reports. Some employees feel that they are being watched by these reports that what they have done for the day at a micro level. Specially in a scenario with managers who keeps an detailed eye with their team members, they get a chance of speaking out loud and implementing the micromanaging way of handling team. Employees do feel stress about it and they keep on updating the fake time management for the work, which is clearly a negative impact on employees.

At Organization level company gains their ROI by every single hour deployed by the each and every workforce in the company. Which means we cant afford to loose productivity of employees top to bottom and if employee is working in a same direction then its a good practice to track everything and entitled the right person name on the accountability.

In a view of considering both ways its a matter of organization culture, that impacts the value of tracking daily reports. If the top line/Reporting Managers of the organization have good team handling experience then these reports will be considered as an opportunity to the team members to must document their work as an owner. If this will be the prime intention of the Managers then the employees will be more keen to track their work and document the task with the right time management. Even if the employee has spent 2 hours of free time on reading or browsing that not impact their daily work efficiency. Daily Work Reports should not demoralize employees and squeeze every last minute out of them. Proper use of time and project tracking helps companies to streamline their operations, not by exploiting the employees, but by improving project estimation, time management, billing and resource allocation.

In modern organization culture, its more important that employee to be innovative and creative to solve the business puzzles with a new approach. So, it dose not matter if you sit at your workstation for eight hours straight or for half of the time. Your inputs should impact the ROI.

With proper intentions and guidance if Daily Work Reports is been processed in any organization it is a benefit for employee and employer both. We just need the right direction, It is a positive move to adept.