Do you track work hours?

[Alfred Thompson]

Originally posted by Wolfe
Wow. what a colossal waste of time and resorces. Why on earth would you want to keep track of time hours? People put in what they want to and what they can. To expect them to do more is ridiculous. To say anyone has done too much is also ridiculous. You cannot get good results by forcing peole to do work in FIRST. Commitment level is not something that needs to be that precicely measured or that should be measured in hours.
Going on trips is based mainly on work hours, but also on grade level, if it your last year you are more likely to get to go etc.

"From each according to his ability and to each according to his needs" as Marx put it.

Well you identified why track hours in your post - going on trips. This is probably not an issue if people have to pay their own way, as happened to us this year, but if the team is paying for the trip is it really fair that someone who showed up for an hour a week gets a free trip to Florida?
In general the reason to track hours is to reduce the subjectivity around who gets their way paid on trips. Or who gets the leadership roles for the next year. It's not to force people to work but to reward those who do.