Timesheet

Historically, a timesheet was developed as a means of recording worked hours so that the employee's wages could be calculated. Now employee timesheets have a wider purpose than just recording hours attended.

Timesheets may record the start and end times or just the duration. A timesheet may contain a detailed breakdown of tasks worked on. In addition to payroll, this information may be used for client billing in professional services or for project costing.

When timesheets were primarily for payroll, there was only a requirement to complete them in time for the pay-run calculations. However with the broader use of the worked time information, there is more urgency to get the data input. For example the employees maybe paid monthly but clients may be billed weekly – hence the need to input the data more frequently.

With workforces sometimes working at client sites or at locations remote from the payroll processing point, there has been a move to providing a solution for remote data entry. The internet has largely solved this problem with either web based timesheet entry or as the basis for a wide-area network providing access to the timesheet entry program.

To assist employees to enter accurate data into their timesheet some software overlays the working calendar so that non-working days can be more easily identified. This is particularly useful in the construction industry where industrial awards provide employees with addition days off called rostered days off or RDO's. The occurrence of these RDO's vary by location so a company with a national payroll will require their timesheet to have access to multiple working calendars.

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