First published on Thursday, June 19, 2025
Last updated on Friday, June 20, 2025
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A timesheet report plays as a vital part of your workplace time management and can provide even further insight into the working days of your employees, beyond just their start and finish times.
With the data generated from a detailed timesheet report you can gain a whole host of insights, including:
Employee working hours
A simple one and probably quote obvious, but timesheets in their most basic form will provide insight into what hours your team are working over a set date range (typically daily, weekly, monthly).
Project costs and time required
If you're using timesheets to oversee the management of a team project, not only will you be able to keep track of hours spent on individual tasks, but you can also gain insight into how much this project is costing your business.
Plus, track billable hours to ensure each task and individual is paid accurately for their time.
Resource allocation
With the data provided by a timesheet report you can determine areas in need of extra resources. For example, if a team is spending excessive amounts of time on one task every day, you may be able to provide some backup to minimise time wasted and to gain back valuable hours for additional work.
Accurate payroll data
With automated reports you can review the accuracy of your payroll data almost instantly. Ensuring that your next pay run is error-free. With minute-by-minute records, guarantee your staff are paid accurately according to their working hours.
What's more, with timesheet software, generate reports on a regular basis, completing this every month ahead of upcoming pay runs to supply your payroll processes with current data.
Insights to support performance reviews
Supplying managers with timesheet reports allows them to easily analyse the time entries to identify trends in overtime, assess employee work allocation, and measure overall project efficiency.
In addition, targets and areas for performance improvement can identified where an employee may be failing to adhere to time tracking policies or where they are frequently late to work. This data can support you in your decision making.
Data to enhance future planning
With insights to cover multiple areas of your people management, timesheet reports can enhance your future planning, whether you have an upcoming project or are onboarding an influx of new starters to your growing team, the data you gather from your timesheets can support in improving your workplace time management.
Save time with automated timesheet reports
No time to generate your own time tracking reports? Worry not.
With BrightHR you can generate automated timesheet reports in the click of a button. Simply select your date range to generate a detailed report with the working time data of your entire team. Using a platform that combines data from your shifts and rosters, and our clocking in app, you can gain a detailed oversight of your team's daily, weekly, and monthly working hours.
Don't let poor time management hold back the growth of your business. Invest in advanced HR solutions to make your life easier and enhance your use of company time. Book a free demo to discover more from BrightHR.
