Any project managers NOT have to bill every 15 min of their day to a job code?

If so where do you work?
And how many hours do you work per week on average?

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I had a job when I was starting out that required we account for every 15 minutes worked. In a spreadsheet, no less. 🙄 The time I spent populating that spreadsheet… 🤦🏼‍♀️ Everyone pushed back on this practice. It got to a point where we just logged time willy-nilly, as populating that spreadsheet became its own part time job. I lasted there for two years. I loved the work but the spreadsheet made me feel like I couldn’t be trusted to do my job in the time allocated and like I was punching a clock. I’ve moved on and have never had to do that again. Every other project has been tracked by the hour. My typical work week is 40 hours. I will let my client know if I am going to go over, but if the project is scoped accurately, it shouldn’t be an issue.

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We used to have an non billable job number for downtime etc. Another reason why I like the client side better. I don’t miss billing time or seeing people let go because on paper they don’t look busy. When in fact they were busy all day and didn’t want to bill the client. Or they are on an account with a low budget.

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Right now unemployed. The contract role I landed. They started laying off freelancers & two perm employees who were both under a year. Toxic. I fortunately made enough to be eligible for unemployment. Now I’m interviewing for perm or temp to perm. As well as using this time to take a bootcamp so I don’t go crazy 😜

PMs don’t bill hours where I work. I have to for my Print Production jobs (every 15mins). I have to remind everyone in my ‘generic Agency’ job number that I do PM/Workflow now too. I have to bill 7.5 hours per day.

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