transparency Archives

Peering Through the Looking Glass: Salary Transparency – Is It For You?

Friday the 30th of April 2021 — Written by Marlene Oulton

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…

How to Introduce a New Timesheet to Your Team

Thursday the 14th of May 2020 — Written by Dovico

I don’t need to tell you that change is hard. Change at work is especially tough to deal with as we all get into daily habits that bring us some level of success. However, business needs change, and your office is in desperate need of a better timekeeping solution. Billing clients efficiently and accurately every month is a chore. You have to change your project time tracking process, but you know there will be opposition….

Tagged: Being Prepared / Communication / Company Culture / Introducing a new timesheet / preparation / Productivity / transparency

6 Meaningful Benefits of Expense Report Software

Friday the 5th of July 2019 — Written by Dovico

Are you buried in paper from piles of coffee-stained receipts and crumpled expense reports? How much time are you wasting chasing staff down to correct incomplete or illegitimate expense claims? If you can relate to these frustrations, then these benefits of expense report software may be of value to you. It’s time to ditch the paper. There are always better ways to do everything. Expense reporting is not an exception. As your company grows, meaningful…

Tagged: Benefits / efficient / empowered / Expense tracking / Expenses / flexible / Organized / Responsive / transparency / zen

How Podcasting Can Build a Better Community

Friday the 31st of May 2019 — Written by Dovico

A community is a sense of belonging you get when you are in a group of like-minded people. People who you share common attitudes, interests and goals with make up your community. Podcasting helps communities connect and share those common thoughts and ideas. And when you belong to a community, you feel secure from the alignment. We sell timesheet software. So why would Dovico get into the podcasting business? Time tracking is a method to…

Tagged: Community / Company Culture / Free Knowledge / Podcast / Sharing / transparency

Lead With Kindness, Leads to a Better Work Life

Thursday the 27th of September 2018 — Written by Dovico

As the great Joe Cocker said in a lyric: “I get by with a little help from my friends.” I texted our CEO one evening and asked him if I could talk to him about kindness, maybe over coffee outside the office. He replied, “let’s go hike Fundy at 5 am!” It all started when I realized that I was not kind. In this world, I know that I have more of myself to give,…

Tagged: CEO / Company Culture / Engagement / Hiking / Ideas / transparency / Walking Meeting

Corporate transparency makes ‘cents’

Tuesday the 1st of May 2018 — Written by Dovico

It was my first day on the job; I was nervous and excited. What would the day bring? Did I make the right decision? There is no turning back now! Let’s do this! I stood in for my first ever Monday morning staff meeting at my new company. I was greeted with smiles and introduced to the rest of the staff. I was beginning to feel comfortable. It just happened to be the first Monday…

Tagged: business / Company Culture / profitability / transparency / trust