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Follow on Google News | Worksnaps Featured Customer: Athena IT Limited"Think from the workers' perspective, they want to ensure that an hour worked is an hour paid. Worksnaps helps to achieve that by allowing them to prove their work hours. Accurate time tracking is to the best interest of both sides."
By: Worksnaps Dealing with the dynamics in outsourcing Daniel Offer, Athena IT's Managing Director, is no stranger to the outsourcing world. He has been running his business with a remote workforce for years now. Outsourcing is very dynamic as one will be dealing with people that he might not even have met before. Daniel Offer has devised a methodology of effectively doing it. One key consideration is to distinguish between project-based work and pay-by-the-hour work. "The problem is that of incentives," For the contracted workers that Offer pays by the hours, he needs a fair, accurate and reliable way to track their time. "Although outsourcing is much cheaper than employing someone domestically, there is a huge potential for time card fraud, deliverable fraud or even unauthorized subcontracting," Athena IT started to roll out Worksnaps to his team in late 2012 and now his contractors who work on hour-based projects are using it to track their time and getting paid based on the logged hours. "The perception of intrusiveness is not really an issue here," explains Offer. "Think from the workers' perspective, they want to ensure that an hour worked is an hour paid. Worksnaps helps to achieve that by allowing them to prove their work hours. Accurate time tracking is to the best interest of both sides." Utilizing Worksnaps features based on needs Once Athena IT (http://www.chitchat.org.uk/ Worksnaps has a rich set of features. While using Worksnaps to manage his contractors, Offer utilizes different features based on his needs. "For the new workers, I have them turn on the webcam so that I can see their presence. For more trustworthy workers I solely rely on screenshot tracking," explains Offer. "Tracking users' hours by periodic screenshots and optionally webcam captures are invaluable. The ability to produce invoices and have workers hours sent to me by email each day also adds value." Offer also likes the capability to put different people into different projects so that each project can be managed and accounted for separately. Also it prevents workers from seeing beyond what they are assigned to work on. "I came from using vWorker AccuTimeCard application. But I am happy to find Worksnaps because it offers a much richer feature set with a lower price for us," says Offer. A word about managing remote workforce With products such as Chit Chat for Facebook (http://www.chitchat.org.uk/) "Micro-managing is something that will get workers to 'back up', I am not advocating that," says Offer. "But preventing timecard fraud and increasing productivity fully justifies the use of a tool like Worksnaps. It is essential to apply the same good management principles whether you manage in person or you utilize tools such as Worksnaps to manage remotely." Originally Posted on: http://worksnaps.net End
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