I use the Yahoo! "DailyBilling" widget.  It sucks the least of
everything else I've tried.

It saves its data in an XML file which is easily parseable; I've
written a little script (attached) that sends me an email containing a
summary of the last month's hours.

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm looking for an approach to track the time my staff spends on
> particular types of tech support work. I have no desire to track their
> every action, but I'd like to be able to run an occasional report that
> would tell me how many hours per month we spend supporting email,
> fixing printers, troubleshooting network issues, etc.
>
> I want to make it as lightweight and unobtrusive as possible. Can
> anyone suggest a tool that would work for a group of approximately 12
> techs who work on a mix of PCs and Macs.
>
> -Tim
>
> --
> Tim Wilson, The Savvy Technologist
> Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
> Educational technology guy, Linux and OS X fan, Grad. student, Daddy
> mailto: wilson at visi.com  aim: tis270  blog and podcast: http://technosavvy.org
>
>
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