UK Start-Up Launches Automatic Time Tracking Software

Released on = November 13, 2006, 2:05 am

Press Release Author = workingProgram Limited

Industry = Software

Press Release Summary = Start-up launches new software that takes the pain out of
timesheets.

Press Release Body = London-November 13, 2006. UK start-up workingProgram Limited
have just launched Qlockwork, a Windows application that automatically tracks PC
activities and displays the results in Microsoft Outlook. They predict that
Qlockwork will make existing timesheets faster and easier to fill out, and far more
accurate.

\"We all know that filling in timesheets is unpopular, but many
companies-particularly those who bill for their staff\'s time-worry that they are
inaccurate.\" says workingProgram director Anne Currie. \"Most of us struggle to
remember exactly what we did today; if we were asked to fill out a timesheet for
yesterday, last week, or a month ago, we\'d have little chance of getting it right\".

Existing time tracking software typically relies on the user starting and stopping
timers whenever they change what they\'re working on. Currie continues: \"Software
timers are better than nothing, but they\'re still dependent on people's memory. As
often as not, busy professionals are concentrating too hard on their work to
remember to use what is, effectively, just a stopwatch.\"

To deal with the problem, workingProgram developed Qlockwork, a Windows application
that tracks user activity on a PC and displays the information in a new Outlook
calendar. According to Currie, \"Qlockwork doesn\'t rely on the user remembering
anything; at the end of the day or the week, they can just check what they did in
their Qlockwork calendar, and then fill out their timesheet.\"

Qlockwork accomplishes this by monitoring the applications that people interact
with, triggered by their keyboard or mouse activity. Tracking user activity could
raise privacy concerns, but Currie is at pains to distance workingProgram\'s
Qlockwork from employee monitoring software: \"Qlockwork only tracks whether the
keyboard and mouse are in use, not what you type. Also, the data collected is
entirely private and you can change it or delete it if you wish."

Qlockwork runs under Windows XP or Windows 2000, and requires Microsoft Outlook 2003
or Microsoft Outlook XP/2002. A free 30-day trial version of the product is
available at http://www.workingprogram.com/downloads.html.

About workingProgram
workingProgram Limited is an independent software company based in London, UK. It
was founded in early 2006, and its founders have over 25 years of combined
experience in the software industry. The company currently specializes in office
productivity software for Windows.
For more information, contact info@workingprogram.com or visit
http://www.workingprogram.com


Web Site = http://www.workingprogram.com

Contact Details = Anne Currie
workingProgram Limited
10 Laura Close
Enfield
London EN1 2DZ
UK
tel/fax: (+44) (0)7814 558814
anne.currie@workingprogram.com

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