Getting excited for summer yet? Things are opening up, and so is the nice weather! I don’t know about you, but I am grateful for the heat. What have we’ve been up to? Here’s a list of updates and fixes to Dovico Timesheet that we’ve released in June 2021: Fix – Backdating an Employee’s Billing Rate in the Team section of the Project Creation/Edit screen properly backdates on the Employees who belong to that project….
A colleague of mine asked me this question a couple of days ago and it made me stop and think – what does it take to create a strong cohesive team? Is it the strength of the leader who can successfully motivate the members? Perhaps it’s the fact that a select few share a common goal and work together to solve any and all problems to reach a final conclusion? Or does a great team…
Summer is almost here! Things are starting to get back to some sort of normalcy, and you can feel the excitement in the air. We’re excited and grateful at Dovico to see the seasons change and the energy change for the good. What have we’ve been up to? Here’s a list of updates and fixes to Dovico Timesheet that we’ve released in May 2021: Fix – Users who dismiss Project Alerts no longer receive an…
Let me set the scenario for you. The ‘cream of the crop’ of your employees is all gathered in your boardroom for the sixth team meeting. As you gaze around the table you notice that two of them are almost nodding off, one is frantically typing notes on their laptop, while another is staring out the window, thoughts totally lost in space. The remainder of the group looks as if root canal surgery is imminent…
It is every business owner’s dream to have a company that runs smoother than creamy peanut butter on hot toast. It is crucial to try and hire the best and brightest and keep those knowledgeable employees happy, but let’s get realistic here for a moment and take a closer look at something that is becoming an issue within many organizations and that is… salary transparency. Today I’d like to talk about this sometimes controversial aspect…
We’re now into an age of hiring what we like to call a new ‘breed’ of employees, specifically called ‘knowledge workers. Way back in 1959, management expert Peter Drucker coined this phrase to describe people whose main skillset was to ‘think for a living rather than wait to be told what to do and when to do it. They’re highly independent, confident in their abilities to do their job well, and need little supervision in…
The tulips are here! Spring has sprung and there is more energy in the air… and allergens. Isn’t sneezing with a mask on fun? We hope you have an exciting month ahead, April is a month of fresh beginnings. What have we’ve been up to? Here’s a list of updates and fixes to Dovico Timesheet that we’ve released in April 2021: Fix – Multiple choice Custom Fields no longer breaks the Expense Entry view when…
Over the past 12 months, office life as we know it has completely changed. While many of us want our home life to return to normal, we don’t see a “new normal” consisting of full-time in-office work. The reality is, managers are now on the hunt for permanent, stable, and remote-friendly cloud software tools for their team to use. In 2020 alone, cloud spending has increased by 6.3%. Once upon a time, software tools that…
Cultivating an authentic corporate culture is a fickle and elusive beast to pin down at the best of times. But when Covid-19 reared its ugly head in early 2020 and forced a large majority of the professional world into a remote working situation, the traditional guidebook on how to create fertile grounds for a healthy team culture needed to not only be tweaked but, in most cases drastically revised or rewritten entirely. Working Remotely Has…
As a general rule, we all waste time. We live our lives as if we have all the time in the world. However, when it comes to crunch time, there’s never enough. At the start of any big project, the mood is light. While we know there is a mountain of work to do, we feel like we have all the time to do it. It’s in the future, and our future is endless -and…
