There’s technology around every corner that’s relevant to everything we do. Whether your company is excavating a job site or installing high-tech equipment, how you manage your employee activity on site can be improved through technology. Integrating new technology into your team doesn’t need to be confusing or scary. Turn a construction job site tracking SNAFU into a simple, repeatable process.
Don’t let a “dumb” job site detract from business success. Historically construction has been one of the worst industries in terms of utilizing technology, right behind agriculture. The good news is, we’ve seen major technology adoption happening over the past 15 months in construction and the improvement from a “dumb job site” to a “smart job site” has drastically improved efficiency and project profit. Job site data is the vehicle to profitability and contractors are realizing that more and more every day.
Let’s take a look at a few common job-site issues you don’t actually have to deal with anymore, from time cards to equipment we have solutions to solve your job site problems.
Your crew comes to work all week; leaves an hour early on Tuesday for a doctor’s appointment, and works on 3 different areas (cost codes) throughout the week. When they fill out their time card on Friday they forget they left early and only remembered two of the job codes, so they put down an entire week’s worth of time incorrectly. A small mistake today adds up over time and with multiple people, crews, and job-sites over the year the mistake becomes HUGE (learn just how big with our savings calculator). Even if this only happens once a pay period, across 40 staff, your busybusy subscription is paid for. Plus with digital time tracking through busybusy we keep your job costing accurate with easy cost code changes and photo documentation.
Adding on the lack of consistent time tracking when filling out a timecard once a week, accurate, timely, and complete-time tracking through a digital time clock dramatically reduces the blame game. We’ve often heard contractors refer to good time-tracking software as the ultimate conflict resolution. Never question who did what, when, where someone was, or even if they were on-site. With GPS-enabled time tracking software, busybusy utilizes geofencing to recognize when someone enters or leaves a job site, and creates breadcrumbs of data as they progress around the job site throughout their shift.
Another common issue we hear about often is equipment data. If you have ever been the poor soul searching multiple job sites for a major piece of equipment, or not knowing where your operators are, the scheduling abilities within busybusy are your new lifesaver. From simple scheduling issues, we help you put equipment where it needs to be for your jobs. When the equipment isn’t where it needs to be, take a look and see where it’s been scheduled to and where it was last used. Maybe it never left the last job site or maybe the job site is behind schedule. Either way, the data is readily available and a quick solution to finding your equipment fast. If you’re not ready to use the scheduling feature as soon as an operator clocks into a piece of equipment, the location of the equipment and employee are immediately available.
“I’ll check when I’m back at the trailer,” is something we’ve heard or said all too often, and many times forgot to do when we did get back. Many job sites have job boxes for plans and specs, and some crews have tablets with plans and specs, but very few take the time to have a schedule, cost codes, and employee schedules as readily available as they keep their plans. There is room for huge improvement here with the implementation of busybusy. Keeping data at your fingertips helps you answer questions quickly and make educated decisions on the fly. Need to know your project utilization rates and how many hours left in your budget? In a few clicks, we have your reports and your answers in front of you. No more waiting until you can sit at your computer to get answers.
Recapping our commonly identified problems and solutions, we have three major elements we want you to know about: job site progress, time-tracking, and reporting.
Job site progress is easily documented when crew members can add notes and photos to their digital time tracking app. This aids in tracking inventory use, equipment use, progress towards completion and even change order requests. When a crew member is asked to do something outside of scope and is given quick approval, their hours can be logged on the spot, and photos of the changes in scope documented for invoicing.
With our time tracking application we make e-signatures and approval quick and easy, and most importantly available from anywhere. By allowing your team to review and sign time cards from anywhere, we are increasing productivity and allowing your team to stay in the field longer. We’re helping eliminate delays in invoicing and payroll by never sending a timecard back to the field for a signature, just a notification. We make meeting DOL compliance easy too with digital storage of all your approved timecards. Did you know you are required by law to have two years’ worth of signed time cards on file at all times? Don’t worry because we will make sure every time card stays in digital storage.
Reporting with busybusy isn’t just a quick hours-spent report. We’ve made it functional for multiple uses across your company to help analyze and track progress, and the development of custom reports to cater to your specific needs. When you take into consideration the features of digital timecards, scheduling capabilities, and real-time data, these reports give you insights that are up to date the day you pull them. How often can you say your current reports are accurate? The accuracy and real-time features in our system keep you in-the-know on job site progress and with daily project reports you know every day is accurate.
We built busybusy to solve some of your most common job site issues and bring technology to the field. We know busybusy can turn a “dumb” job site “smart” with a quick implementation of software so easy to use you won’t even need to train your team.
Stay up with your competition by implementing busybusy to gain efficiency, increased productivity, and increase the accuracy of your tracking and reporting. We know you’ll love it. In fact, we’re so confident we’re offering you no contract and a 90-day money-back guarantee. Try it, love it, or get your money back. Get started with moving your job site from dumb to smart in a snap today.
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