Weekly Time Reporting
I would like to set it up so that my graphic designers can track their hours to add up to a 40 hour week. Obviously, they can track by task, but they have a considerable amount of admin time as well (emails, internal meetings, etc). We are currently using Harvest, where they can put in all their hours for the week and then submit a timesheet that adds up to 40 hours. Does anyone do this for their team? Best practices? Efficient/simple way to set it up?
Hi Erin! I did this at a previous job.
Essentially, we created a separate folder called "General Tasks" where we added tasks like the one you mentioned. No one was assigned to it and it had no deadline, that way the task didn't show up in reports, My Work, etc. It was basically just an empty shell used to log time.
Since I left there, Wrike implemented a new Timelog Category feature that might be helpful to you if you have a Business or Enterprise account: https://help.wrike.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005858769-Categories-for-Time-Tracking
I'm not as familiar with this feature but it could work for you! This way, you wouldn't have to set up tasks to "catch" the time logs. For example, you could log time on a task "Design webpage mockup" and categorize it as "Meeting" if team members met about that step of the project.
I hope that helps!