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petera
Contributor 2
30 days ago

Creating Teams In Team Management

Good day to all, I wanted to see if this is something that Jobber is planning on implementing anytime in the very near future. For those of us that run a landscape company we typically run in teams. As of right now, it appears that things are a little harder than it should be, just personal opinion. Here is the scenario:

Current: Every employee has their own app where they clock in and clock out, that's great. However, If you are running a team of 2 or 3 personnel, each member not only has to clock in, but has to start a timer and stop a timer at each and every job site. This becomes a nightmare when it's time to approve times. For those of us in this industry, I think you feel this pain as well. I'm sure you've figured a work around, but at the sacrifice of not knowing your true job cost in labor. 

Idea.....

Future: In team management, create teams, this is where a company can have multiple teams, example Alpha team, Bravo team. Alpha team has 3 men on the crew and Bravo has 4 men on the crew. Each team is assigned a day's schedule and a team leader. The team leader would be responsible for starting and stopping time at each work site. While the employee all they need to do is clock in and clock out. There are other platforms that run this script and drastically improves time spent on the computer sorting through everyone's timesheets.  

This would be an exponential improvement on the contractor's side of things. What are your thoughts?

  • jade's avatar
    jade
    Jobber Support Team

    Hey Petera! Thanks for the suggestion on team management here! I will certainly share this with our Product Team. I don’t have any timelines to share right now, but in the meantime, here’s how some Jobber customers run crew timers, which you may already be doing:

    1.  Assign one person as a team lead who clocks in and out on the app. The team lead will be responsible for leaving a note on the timer stating all of the teammates who worked that visit.
    2. Then an admin can manually add those hours for the crew members who are not the team lead.

    To learn more on how this could work for you, please contact our Success Team, 888-721-1115 ext 1, support@getjobber.com or start a live chat!

  • Every employee is resposible for their own clock in and out for the day but on the job level we only require the team leads. That has worked out great for us.