1) Have a quick time sheet seminar for all employees.

Keep it under 10 minutes. It’s time sheet rules—not rocket science. Go over the most important aspects of your timekeeping policy. Taking time to review this will impress employees with the importance of good timekeeping habits.

2) Send out a one page summary of the time sheet seminar with all your company’s policies.

Make sure that everyone who wasn’t able to attend the seminar received it. Maybe even come up with a short quiz to test employees and hand out prizes for top scores as a way to incentivize information retainment.

3) Automate your time sheets.

If you haven’t already done so, automate your timekeeping system. You’ll save time (pun definitely intended) and you’ll reduce errors by a lot.

4) Send out reminders to fill out time sheets.

Another perk of automating your systems is that you can choose a software tool that will send out email reminders to employees who have yet to fill out their time sheet. This reminder can be daily or weekly. CabuzTime is a great tool for time sheet automation.

5) Make sure your time sheet system is scalable.

There’s no telling how large your organization might grow. Make sure your timekeeping system is flexible enough and had the capacity to grow with your company.

Start the new year off right by making sure that all the hours are properly and responsibly accounted for.

Happy New Year!