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The Ultimate Company Culture Killer and 3 Ways to Protect It

Written by Jennelle McGrath | September 21, 2022

There has been no other activity that has had more impact on our company culture like a 90-degree hard turn- OVERNIGHT than removing time tracking from our day-to-day operations. 

Our story has a happy ending, but getting there took much reflection as a team and an organization. 

It all innocently started because we wanted to solve a simple problem- “no one had time”. In theory time tracking helps profitability, but for us it was bigger than that. It truly came from a place of good- how can we give our team more hours back in their day?

We launched the program and ran it for over a year. What we uncovered gave us great insight, helped us develop project scope, fine tune offerings, eliminate tasks that people were doing that they did not need to, and develop training.