I've received a constant stream of chasers and reminders about timesheet entry in recent weeks. The organisation seems obsessed on this, which suggests there is a wider problem.
The assumption appears to be that this is primarily an employee issue. That may be true in some cases, but from my perspective the root causes are systems and process related.
Common examples include:
- It taking an excessive amount of time for a WBS to be created and allocated to an employee's profile.
- Timesheets that were submitted on time get reopened sometime later by someone else.
We seem to be investing a considerable amount of effort in chasing employees, and then having those staff raising HR cases to get individual weeks resubmitted. That effort would be better spent delivering value to our clients. Yet none of that value add features in our stock FY27 objectives.