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Time tracking: a solution to construction’s ‘productivity puzzle’?

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  1. Until “construction” is undertaken by proper builders instead of “project managers” productivity will always remain an issue.
    Most subcontractors have no ‘skin in the game’ and other than the larger businesses with a reputation at stake are able to walk away from a project knowing that their resource has been committed elsewhere.
    The only way to stop this is to enable more skilled workers to be directly employed AND to stop the race to the cheapest price by the Client

  2. I think David McCormick is correct in what he says but time tracking has great potential. For trades people how would it work? mobile phones to input their time hourly that automatically connects to time tracking software

  3. Sounds great in theory, but how many people are paid by the hour rather than on productivity or salary? The former have every incentive to increase productivity the latter would have to become like lawyers and charging someone for every 15 minutes (which would push costs up). Surely the real problems in construction come from poor management of the design and construction process.

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