What is a placement?
A placement is the assignment of a specific worker to a specific client for a period of time, usually by a staffing agency. It carries the position, start and end date, pay and invoice rates, and who at the client approves the hours.
Why hours belong to a placement
One worker can have several placements, at the same time or one after another, and each placement can have its own rates, allowance rules and approvers. Recording hours against the placement, rather than just against the person, makes sure the right client approves them, the right rates are applied and the right client is invoiced.
Placements also define what is plausible. Hours outside the start and end date of a placement, or overlapping hours on two placements, are a signal that something is wrong.
Placements in TimeTracking
TimeTracking stores placements with client, contacts and dates, and links every recorded hour to a placement. Client approval links, conflict checks between the hours of the worker and those reported by the client, and anomaly detection all work per placement.
Related pages
Staffing agency
A company that employs or contracts workers and places them at client companies, paying the workers and invoicing the clients.
Client approval
The client confirming the hours a worker spent at their site, before the hours are paid and invoiced.
Staffing agencies
Placements, client approval by magic link, AI parser, conflict detection and payroll exports.
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