Time tracking automation for employees working remotely

The paper describes a method for solving the problem of time tracking of enterprise employees who work remotely. The method is based on the development of a separate information system with the ability to integrate into the existing project management system. According to surveys made by the IDC research company, the procedure of filling out the time sheet by employees of many companies is rather inconvenient and long. However, in order to manage projects, managers need to know the actual time spent on work. For the server side, the authors used the NestJS framework, for the client web application – the Angular JS framework. In the process of modeling the information system, diagrams of the time tracking process before automation and after automation were obtained using modern notations for their construction. MS SQL Server has become a relational database management system. The paper presents a comparative analysis of existing solutions for time tracking of enterprise employees, such as: TMetric, StaffCop, WorkPoint, Kickidler, ManicTime, CrocoTime, identifies their main advantages and disadvantages. It also describes the methodology, analysis, selection of development tools, design and development of an information system that has been successfully implemented in the internal structure of a small enterprise with 70 % of its employees switched to a remote mode of operation. The calculation of the automation equipment efficiency has shown a decrease in the labor intensity of filling out time sheets by 80 % and a 60 % decrease in time costs. Detailed reporting of elapsed time allow more efficient allocation of resources by tasks resulting in increased overall project manageability.