Fruitful Time Business Edition

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Fruitful Time makes a free Productivity Meter that we’ve mentioned before.  It tracks how your computer is being used and gives you a good idea how your time is being spent.  They now have a paid Business Edition that lets you do the same thing for a group of employees.  I have used some tools like this in the past so my staff could tell where they are spending their time.  It looks like it is still windows only.  For a cross platform (OSX and Windows) tool, check out Slife. They make a similar free personal/paid team product.

If you are looking at a product like this, one of the big things you want is the ability to track things based on the path or name of the document being used.  So clients/XYZcorp/document.txt would accrue time toward XYZcorp and /ABCinc/document.txt would count toward ABCinc.  It sounds like Fruitful Time can handle the document name which would work if you named everything with the client’s name at the beginning.