Time following alludes to how associations record the functioning long stretches of hourly representatives and guarantee those workers have remunerated precisely for their time. It is a subcategory of time and participation, which is an expansive term that ordinarily includes time following just as different components like participation, time off, billable hours, and booking. 

Time following separates into three principal segments:

• Time passage
• Approvals
• Reporting

Initially, these capacities were completely performed totally by hand. Presently they are frequently taken care of by program structured explicitly for that reason; be that as it may, there are still associations that perform time following physically, either to some degree or in full.

Time section is the day by day process by which a business records representatives’ beginning occasions, completing occasions, and any breaks excluded from the worker’s legally binding understanding. These occasions are called timestamps and might be recorded on a physical report called a timecard or using an electronic strategy like a spreadsheet or time-following programming. Time section is regularly alluded to as “checking in and out” or “punching in and out,” the last of which alludes to “punching” the catch on a physical time clock that stamps the time on a paper timecard.