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Excel, one of the more popular members of the Microsoft Office family, has been used in some pretty creative ways. A common practice is to manipulate Excel functions for employee time and expense tracking. With the potential risks for security breaches, data corruption, and inaccurate record keeping, using Excel for time and expense tracking could lead to a host of problems for organizations of any size.

Payroll and expense reporting without adequate documentation can often result in the need for extra-strength Advil. For some organizations, this annual financial anxiety can easily become a lifetime of grief when a few simple details are overlooked in order to meet the filing deadline.

The months of March and April have many sports fans consumed by the NCAA Basketball Championships, the start of NBA and NHL Playoffs, as well as the start up of the MLB regular season. Unfortunately, this means numerous companies pay for employees to participate in fantasy sports pools, track team and player statistics, and chat in forums online.

Is anybody in your office sick today? Did they take the day off, or are they sitting near by?

Application Service Providers (ASP) such as Replicon have expanded the opportunity for many organizations to fully utilize outside professionals to build and maintain secure servers that run their day-to-day applications. Productivity software such as Web TimeSheet ASP takes the effort out of maintaining your time software solutions. By employing Replicon’s online timesheet platform you are able to concentrate on your business. After all, you know your business best, and we know ours.

Plenty of people are now back to work after their Christmas holidays that were filled with lazy mornings, hearty turkey dinners, and masses of chocolates; making these first couple weeks back in the office lethargic at best.

It's an economic conundrum. While sales from online retailers are set to hit record-breaking numbers this year, the soaring popularity of online shopping could end up costing employers even more in lost productivity.

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A Fort Bend County deputy has been indicted -- accused of stealing thousands of dollars by falsifying time cards, KPRC Local 2 reported.

In business, data loss refers to an unforeseen loss of data or information. There are several root causes for data loss, and although there have been many backup and recovery efforts made over the last few years, more often than not, data loss is permanent.

For the past few weeks, as the Loonie has inched higher in value, Canadians have been aiming sights across the border to take advantage of their strong currency and the US prices that are often inexplicably lower than those in Canada.

It is common knowledge in the business world that if your employees do billable work for clients, timesheets are a very necessary tool.

Facebook is an Internet phenomenon that has swept the entire online world by storm in as little as 18 months. Facebook-a-holics now exist at every workplace, and can often waste an incredible amount of time at work.

Recent studies suggest that Fantasy Football players are costing employers as much as $1.1 Billion in lost productivity every week of the 17-week National Football League season.