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A time management system and productivity may be seen from more than one orientation. Companies may see things from their own profit perspectives and employees may prefer to see things from the standpoint of personal efficiency. Checking up on workers to see that they do not cheat is one view. A more productive approach is to aim at productively for both parties.

Although the issue might be seen from opposite perspectives, there is one central issue that is important. Time is one of the most valuable resources available to the human mind. We all have twenty four hours in a day. Some fritter much of it away and others use it beneficially. Management has a direct bearing on achievement and lack of achievement; on success and failure in life.

From the perspective of employers anxious to track the work of employees who are paid according to hours spent on a job the digital age has ushered in many improvements. An example of a system that has hopefully been consigned to history was a clock fixed to a wall in a college.

One system installed in a college aimed to pay teachers only for hours and minutes spent at the college. This meant punching in a card at arrival and departure, but only the prescribed allocations were accepted for payment If one came an hour early that was ignored but if one left a minute early pay was docked. Morale was at a low ebb as teachers jumped to the whims of the clock.

In more recent times systems like this have become consigned to history. The emphasis is more on efficiency and actual performance than numbers. If workers take ownership of their working hours they will also be better motivated and therefore more productive. In addition the pleasure of using the new technology is interesting and encourages willing use of the device for the intended purposes.

More up-to-date systems promote control and responsibility whilst also being more accurate. The essence of effective management must ultimately be the identification of priorities and allocation of energy to them. Digital pieces allow data to be entered into company payroll systems so that both employers and employees work cooperatively rather than at odds with each other.

Such systems may be stand alone or networked. Essentially they are designed to be useful in an age when much work is done online and often in an airport or at home. Employers and employees have access to information that helps both better understand where time is going. This builds trust and productivity which is essential in service orientated and high technology work environments.

A time management system should attempt to marry the interest of employers and employees. It was once asserted that urgency and importance are inversely related. For many people the problem is that attention is spent on urgent demands whilst important but less demanding issues are neglected. A system should try to align the interests of employees and employees so that most attention is allocated to activity that benefits both.