According to our higher-ups, Timesheets are good for figuring out how far along a project is at any given point, and thus how much we can bill the customers.

They are also used to keep track of: Sick days, vacation time taken so far, Over/Undertime, and productivity %. (This last is a measurement of how much of my time actually goes on billable projects).

Ours are Excel timesheets, with references to centrally maintained project lists, so every row I create contains an approved project name (some of which are internal things like "Work environment/tools"). We enter the arriving/leaving/lunch times, and then have to distribute the remaining hours among the chosen projects.

The only thing I've seen change which might indicate that anyone reading/using these may care about productivity, is that a "project" called "Non-productive tasks" got removed from the list completely, presumably too many people were using it.

C.