TSheets will soon allow on-the-go workers, for the first time ever, to clock in and out by giving simple voice commands to TSheets via their mobile phones.

Workers call a specified number and say, “Hi TSheets. Clock me in under Job Code ‘Customer Meeting.’” They can even take it a step further by attaching notes to their time by saying, for example, “Add notes. I’m meeting with Bob to discuss the bottling project.” Once the clock is running, Jott sends a confirmation to the user via email or SMS text message. When the user wants the clock to stop, he or she simply makes another call saying, “clock me out.”

CTO at TSheets Brandon Zehm said the most difficult phase of the project was interfacing data from Jott with TSheets. In response, he said, he and his team created, “a killer algorithm that detects key words and matches them to actions and personalized job codes that the user is referring to by utilizing ratios and probabilities.”

In addition to voice-activated time tracking, TSheets allows workers to use the web browser on their cell phones to track time with simple point and click commands. The TSheets interface is clean and user-friendly and, most important to business owners, it reports in real time, helping to reduce overtime and make business decisions based on the way workers are spending their time.