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Great insight! It literally happened in my company where the system to order physical goods is so complicated and ugly. Now a secretary handles feeding and tracking requests in this system.

BTW our time tracking tool is a company wide motivation killer that costed 300k€ and does not auto-fill holidays.

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>BTW our time tracking tool is a company wide motivation killer

HINT: They all are.

With cryptic overly specific tasks and one that ends up being the 'catch all' for everything that doesn't fit one of the narrow categories?

You should see law firm timekeeping. It can be mind-blowingly labyrinthine.

40 hours a week spent on "General and Administrative". All 40 hours spent in the system, entering the 40 hours, thus the timecode is correct.

I used to enter 15-30 minutes a day on my timesheets for doing timesheets. It was honest but felt rebellious.

This is the only way to go. If these numbers are ever actually used for something, maybe somebody will realize that the timesheets system can be improved.

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