HR & Time

Time and attendance data intersects with payroll, project profitability, compliance, and workforce planning simultaneously. When that data is split between a stopwatch app, a paper timesheet, and a spreadsheet, the result is reconciliation overhead and numbers nobody fully trusts. The HR & Time category in TeamGrid captures it once and makes it useful everywhere.

Time Tracking is the professional billing layer. An always-visible timer in the top navigation bar means no minutes are lost to forgotten entries — it shows what you are tracking and for how long, in an orange pill that is impossible to miss. The same timer is embedded inside every task card: click it and tracking starts instantly with the project, task, and billing rate filled in automatically, and the previous timer stopped. A floating desktop window lets you control tracking without switching to the browser at all. When you stop, the entry is created, the rate is applied, and the project budget updates in real time — no reconciliation needed.

The rate resolution engine checks 7 tiers automatically — from a manual override on a specific entry, down through project-level member rates, personal default rates, service category rates, to a workspace fallback — so every minute is priced correctly regardless of who tracked it or which project it belongs to. Billable and non-billable flags cleanly separate client work from internal overhead. The result: your team tracks time in one click and your billing reflects accurate costs without anyone doing math.

Attendance replaces the punch clock with a system that lives in the desktop menu bar. One-click check-in starts the working day. Breaks are tracked with a single tap — the system deducts break time from gross hours automatically. Your overtime balance updates live throughout the day, calculated against your configured daily target — no end-of-month arithmetic, no disputes. Real-time presence status shows every team member as online, on break, or finished, so managers know who is available without needing to ask. The manager team view gives a privacy-compliant overview of current status for the whole team at once.

Leave management handles vacation requests, sick leave, and absence through an integrated approval workflow — so time-off exceptions follow the same structured process as everything else, rather than disappearing into email inboxes. AI voice control lets team members check in by speaking, without opening any screen.

The combination of Time Tracking and Attendance feeds the same Analytics dashboard, so operational leaders see utilization, overtime trends, billable ratios, and team availability from one source — not from three exports that never match.