In our post-COVID world, Microsoft Teams have become an important tool. It offers one of the best interfaces for online conferences and courses. Considering 91% of Fortune 100 firms use Microsoft Teams, it has proven to be very popular- even in the education industry where it is used to teach online classes worldwide.
But the incapacity to track the workers’ attendance for sessions through software is one problem many people are currently facing.
Can you track time in Microsoft Teams?
Unfortunately, the answer is NO. However, there are ways to track if the employees are attending sessions or leaving in the middle of them. It may not be officially available in Microsoft teams, but there are two ways to do it.
- Time-Tracking Apps
- Downloading Attendance Sheets
Time & Attendance Tracking Apps
1. Attendance Bot
It integrates into the Microsoft teams’ workspace, and workers can quickly punch in and out without asking HR on emails. It enables the management of attendance and leaves and makes it easy.
2. ScrumGenius
Automate your group meetings and reduce waste of time and resources with ScrumGenius. Through Microsoft Teams, you can integrate ScrumGenius and collect your employees’ responses about their development and achievement.
3. OfficeAmp
Setup OfficeAmp within your Microsoft Teams workspace to create a comprehensive helpdesk that allows employees to solve small queries instantly. Employees just need to ask OfficeAmp questions, and it pulls up the relevant answer quickly.
4. ZohoRecurit
Se Zoho Recruits offers smooth workflows from the first interview to acceptance from the long list of candidates. All your email and file messages are stored on this one platform, and you don’t have to play between different platforms to do any job.
5. Polly
For your Microsoft teams, Polly makes it easy for workers to participate without disrupting their job. With Polly, you can create polls on your communication tool. As an HR, you can also easily gain feedback from your surveys, and display answers and statistics as your staff fill out their responses.
6. Disco
Disco is an application that interacts with the Microsoft teams to simplify business culture. This application is simple—loyal workers who follow the company principles and incorporate them into their job. Whether the junior developer comes up with innovative ideas for improved customer service or the graphic designer who designs a project for development as a marketing approach, declare these successes and celebrate them.
7. Appogee Goals
Apps like Appogee Goals promote the setting of organizational goals for HRs and add and fulfil their own goals by employees. With this target setting app embedded in the Microsoft departments, you will ensure that workers are accountable.
8. Employee Onboarding
You can set tasks, create an onboard sequence and set e-mail reminders automatically for any tasks you delegate with this application, which is integrated into your Microsoft team’s workstation. You just have to set it up once, and you’re good to go, instead of sending out manual emails and explaining tasks to new hires each time!
All the above apps are benefiting in many different ways. However, all of them, when integrated with Microsoft teams, can enhance the overall productivity. Even if you forget about tracking the time, you can track tasks and ensure that employees are giving their full efforts to the assigned tasks.
Working from home with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams may not provide time in or time out while you are working from home. But it has the features that can help you use this tool as a timesheet and time tracker. The process is really simple and easy. Let’s see how it makes it easy for you.
- Login your password for windows
- A snapshot of working days, particularly in a complex working climate in the home
- A list of employee maximum hours
- A description of existing attendance and absences for managers and human resources (e.g., leave)
- Summary for HR managers of the goal time and maximum working time
- Ability to track compliance with negotiated hours of work
Absence Management
Regardless of whether you need leave, an ill leave, extra time, or parental leave – all absences can be easily reported or entered directly via self-service. Supervisors and colleagues see all planned Absences and unplanned absences to the response.
Reporting
The solution offers real-time updates in all areas of attendance. For a particular staff category or a single employee, the meaningful diagrams and Tables offer an immediate summary of maximum working hours, leave and ill days, etc.
Time tracking in Outlook (Use it as an alternative)
The outlook is the alternative option for you to track the time if you are not feasible in using third-party apps. The familiar Microsoft Outlook helps the customers to monitor their times right by the inbox. Management and assessment may also be done in Outlook in full.
- Outlook will also carry out administration and assessments.
- No additional software is required for your customers
- No additional software must be kept open by your customers
- Your clients just need the time monitoring password of your windows
- Your clients will work online and sync data later with Outlook
Final Thoughts
The bottom line is that the Microsoft teams are able to track the time in many different ways. The article has all the options you can use to engage with the teams easily and collaborate with customers. It’s as simple as choosing your favourite option and get started. For more information, DHRP is always ready to guide you along the way.
