Effort

Your people capacity utilisation, reported simply and securely

In a world of variability in skill levels, time is the one thing that is common to every individual's effort. Time is also the organisation's scarcest resource. We measure this time. One person at a time.

FairDay Effort is just what the name says, an effort measurement software. It looks at how the people capacity is being utilised in any organisation where people spend most of their time on computers, while complying with data privacy laws such as the EU's stringent GDPR.

Our team has 14 years of supporting capacity utilisation decisions in organisations with as small as 5 and as large as 50,000 users spread across the world.

Scenarios

Scenario 1

Consider a team of six people. All of them deliver about the same output. But, what if you knew that the effort to deliver this output was different for each? While not directly and individually meant for performance management, new vistas would present themselves with this data - optimised utilisation of capacity, focused training, team sizing, capturing of best practices, more accurate task planning, better activity costing, etc.

Scenario 2

Consider an independent contributor who bills for her time. She would like to know how her time is being spent. With FairDay Effort, she discovers that 44% of her time is spent on browsing and social media. While these are still important to her, she wishes to better balance these with more value-add activity.

Other scenarios

How it works

1. FairDay Effort is configured for the users.

2. FairDay Smart Client is installed on the user's computer.

3. User begins work on the computer.

4. FairDay Effort SmartClient records all the applications and websites used without taking any screenshots or capturing any data entered. If a specific screen of an application is configured, its individual screen usage time is recorded.

5. When the computer is unlocked or activity begins after a certain threshold for idle time (typically 2-5 minutes), the user is prompted to select from pre-configured options to mark a break, else it is considered as idle time.

6. Based on the configurations defined for the user, all effort is classified into Activity, Breaks and Idle time. Further reporting differentiates Value-Add and Non-Value-Add activity and breaks.

Individual commitment to a group effort, that is what makes a team work.

Vince Lombardi

Features

Capacity utilisation
Improve visibility of the capacity across time for individuals.

User privacy
Respect the users' privacy and avoid monitoring with the webcams.

Work patterns
Identify the patterns of work by time of day of week / month, etc.

Data privacy
Respect the privacy of end-users and provide the required data and nothing beyond.

Work planning
Smarter planning of work allocation based on real availability.

True productivity
Correlate output data and effort data for the best measure of productivity.

Engagement level
Let the people know their engagement and modify it themselves.

Accurate costing
Apply the costs to the true productivity to get an accurate cost of the activity.