The Top Mobile Construction Time Clock

You’re sitting in your office trying to decipher the chicken scratch time cards you have on your desk. Some are crumpled up pieces of paper with smudged ink; some are semi neat, but the clock in/out times are the same every day…this can’t be a coincidence. After finally entering in all your employees time entries into QuickBooks, you wonder if there’s a better solution. There’s an app for almost everything these days from tracking where how many calories you ate to fantasy simulated worlds. Certainly, there must be an app that frees you from those stress filled late night payroll sessions.  Enter Isaac Barlow, the guy who noticed several inefficiencies in the construction industry. Inefficiencies that can be solved with the mobile technology we have available today. His solution is called busybusy, the ultimate construction time clock.

The Problem

Due to the nature of construction it requires a relatively mobile workforce. With paper time cards, it can be pretty difficult to keep track of this mobile workforce and all the different locations they clock in or clock out of every day.  This process can be so difficult to keep track of that many construction foremen will make a list of who showed up and write down 8 hours on their time card, REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG THEY WORKED. Estimating how many hours your employee’s work creates a massive inefficiency in your business as you’re paying out more than you should for both labor wages and workers compensation insurance.

Let’s break this down into some real numbers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average hourly wage of a construction laborer is $16.84. We will round to $17 to simplify our example. Keeping in line with our example above, a foreman/job supervisor will record 8 hours per day for each employee which amounts to 40 hours per week. Your total payroll comes out to $680 per week and approximately $34,136 per year for just that employees wage. According to our research, the average employee is rounding/padding their time cards a whopping 42 minutes per day. This simple rounding and padding may not seem to make a big difference, but 15 minutes late to the job here, an extra half hour at lunch there adds up. The long term affect of this on your bottom line can be massive.

When you look at the numbers, 42 minutes per day adds up to 210 minutes a week. This is 10,542 minutes per year and 175.7 hours per year. At the rate of $17 per hour, you are overpaying your employee by $2,986.9 every year. These numbers are for just one employee imagine how this number can grow exponentially when you have multiple crews working on different projects. The opportunity cost of using paper time cards is too great to ignore.

How much are you passing up on every year?

No everyone’s situation is the same, which is why we have built a calculator for you to figure out how much you are overspending on your payroll every year. Click here to go to busybusy.com and use the calculator.

A Better Option

Paper time cards are simple, everyone knows how to use them but with today’s mobile technology, there are much better choices. These days almost everyone has a smartphone and so naturally it’s a “smart” fit for your business use a time card app.

Enter busybusy

busybusy is founded by a contractor that wanted to solve his business frustrations. It was designed to meet the needs of modern construction professionals and give them the tools they need to run their business with more efficiency. The flagship tool of busybusy is their time card tracking built for contractors. The app allows a mobile workforce to clock in and out at the job site. When they do, a GPS stamp is taken of their location. This simple app can substantially reduce your payroll inefficiencies and create more accountability and trust between your and your employees.

How to Get Started

It can be a big transition to move from paper time cards to a mobile technology like busybusy. Of course, we think we’re the best solution for construction professionals and other businesses that have a mobile workforce. We take great pride in our customer service, and every customer is personally integrated by one of our customer service professionals. They will help you get all of your employees set up and using the app in no time. Click here to learn more about busybusy and what we can do for you.