Time tracking in Outlook – Two facts that disregard MS Outlook

What do I do wrong when I don’t have enough time to complete my assignments? This and other similar questions are asked by many employees. Time tracking in Outlook seems to be a solution that can help those employees to plan their working hours and monitor time consumption. But is it right to say that Microsoft products are best? Or perhaps we should say this software is just within the whole Microsoft package and many users already have it?

Here is one fact: time tracking using Outlook becomes efficient and convenient only if this solution is cost-effective for final users. Most of us are not ready to pay for expensive tools because we always tend to find the balance between functionality we have to pay for and money we are ready to pay. Microsoft develops powerful solutions (besides Outlook the corporation offers Project, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.) but the big problem is that any MS product has a higher price comparing to similar solutions available within the industry.

Here is another important fact: MS Outlook hardly offers unique or individualized solutions because competitors of Microsoft have developed a great variety of software tools that are similar to Outlook features. You can use the web search to find websites that compare alternative tools.

Then is it right to pay more for the same features? Perhaps you don’t want to spend more money on features that are similar to tools for time tracking in Outlook. Perhaps a better way will be to find a solution that is cost-effective and successfully competes with the Microsoft package.

For example, VIP Task Manager offers time management tools that help you plan, track and report time consumption. It is an affordable multi-user time management program that features Calendar view for planning working hours and creating task schedules. Calendar allows you to view several schedules on one screen and plan working hours of several employees at a time. To track employee assignments you can use Filter Bar that lets you easily find an assignment by employee name, due date, priority, date completed, etc.