6 Tips for Managing Remote Employee Location

Location, location, location resounds in our second installment on Managing Remote Employees.   Yes, you can have confidence that your employees are really on the job site when they say they are.   Location tracking is one of the many benefits that a telephone and...

Managing Remote Employees: Prevent Buddy Punching

I was cruising up the interstate blindfolded the other day. Don’t worry. I wasn’t driving. My family insisted that I wear the blindfold as they took me out to eat for my birthday. It was cool. The blindfold had built-in earbuds, so I relaxed to Mandolin...

Effective Alerts for Remote Employees

The Minimum Effective Dose (MED) is a medical term that is becoming used in non-medical environments.  It means applying the smallest dose possible to achieve the desired result; and anything beyond that is wasteful.  If a cup of water will extinguish a tiny fire...

Budgets 103: Control with Integrated Scheduling

We believe that budgets are the target and that schedules are the plan to hit the target. An airplane has a landing destination, but there is a control in place, called the pilot, that brings the plane in.  She will make adjustments along the way in speed and altitude...

Best Business Practices

A sirloin steak may be good, but we all know that a filet mignon is best. Business practices can also be categorized as good and best. We often hear that small businesses with remote hourly workers pay a set number of hours for a job instead of actual time. If the...

What Features Does Chronotek Provide For Large Companies?

Here at the Chronoblog we have spent a lot of time talking about how our system scales perfectly for small businesses.  We always feel that one of the best things our product helps customers accomplish is to keep fixed costs low, by providing a system that grows as...