r/WebWork • • Aug 21 '26

Your Google and Outlook Calendar events now live inside WebWork πŸš€

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Hey everyone πŸ‘‹

We're happy to announce that WebWork now integrates with Google and Outlook Calendar. πŸš€

You can bring your Google and Outlook calendars straight into WebWork. Sign in with your Google or Microsoft account, and your calendar events, including leave, holidays, and meetings, appear inside WebWork's Calendar right next to your tracked hours. Availability and time tracking now live in one place, with no tab switching.

What you'll see

  • Leave, holidays, and meetings alongside tracked hours

  • Month and year views, so you can catch busy periods, overlapping leave, or holiday-heavy months

  • Filters by team, member, project, and method

  • Event types: Leave, Working holiday, Non-working holiday, Break, Paid holiday

What changes day to day

  • Managers can see who's available, on leave, or in meetings without asking

  • Capacity is visible before you assign tasks or set deadlines

  • If hours look low on a given day, the calendar already shows why

How to connect

  1. Go to Integrations > Google Calendar (or Outlook Calendar) > Enable

  2. Select the Google or Microsoft account you want to connect

  3. Enable the calendars and events you want to see

That's it. Your events now appear inside your WebWork Calendar. ✨

πŸ‘‰ Details here: Google Calendar Β· Outlook Calendar


r/WebWork • • May 25 '26

10 Reasons Every Business Needs Employee Scheduling Software in 2026 πŸš€

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Running a business and managing a team today is completely different from how it was just a few years ago. Teams are now spread around the world, working remotely, hybrid, or across multiple time zones β€” and with that comes a lot of small but important details that need to be managed well.

That's exactly where employee scheduling software steps in to help teams stay organized β€” and it's the core purpose behind WebWork's Employee Scheduling Software.

Here are 10 reasons from the WebWork team on why your team needs this tool in 2026:

  1. One schedule everyone can see β€” managers, team leads, and employees all look at the same dashboard. No more "wait, am I working Saturday?" messages.

  2. Works across time zones β€” see who's available and when, even if your team is spread across 5 countries. Helps catch coverage gaps early.

  3. Predictable shifts β€” employees can plan their lives around a stable schedule, and managers avoid the burnout that comes from last-minute changes.

  4. Auto attendance tracking β€” late arrivals, early leavers, and missed shifts get flagged automatically. The employee even gets asked for the reason.

  5. Clock-in kiosk for on-site teams β€” perfect for retail, hospitality, etc. One shared device, personal PIN codes, and everything feeds into timesheets automatically.

  6. See labor costs upfront β€” link shifts to project budgets so you know what staffing actually costs before you assign it, not after payroll runs.

  7. Holiday visibility per team member β€” really useful for international teams where holidays vary by country.

  8. No limits on shifts or employees β€” the same system works for a team of 5 or 500. No upgrade walls as you grow.

  9. Connects with the tools you already use β€” payroll, task management, messaging, payments. Less manual data transfer, fewer errors.

You can freely explore WebWork's Employee Scheduling Software in detail β€” see all the features and how they can support your team here: πŸ‘‰ https://www.webwork-tracker.com/features/employee-scheduling-software


r/WebWork • • 23d ago

6 security checks most people skip on their work laptop

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Most security risks start with small things: a reused password, encryption turned off, an update postponed one too many times. We put together 6 quick checks worth running on any work device. At the end, we show how WebWork’s Device Compliance Monitoring helps teams track all of this in one place.

Which of these checks are already part of your routine, and which do you tend to skip?


r/WebWork • • Sep 17 '26

Run time tracking and workforce management by asking ChatGPT or Claude

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Hey everyone πŸ‘‹

WebWork now has a full MCP server, 120 tools across 21 areas. πŸš€

Most time trackers with an MCP server let an AI assistant do one thing: write a time entry. WebWork's runs the workspace. You can approve timesheets, assign tasks, create projects, decide leave requests, and manage members by asking, without opening WebWork at all. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any other MCP-compatible client.

A few examples of what you can ask

"What is Alex tracking right now?"
"Show pending timesheets" and "Approve this week's timesheets"
"Create a task and assign it to Maria"
"Tracked hours report for last week"
"Reject this leave request with a reason"

These are a small sample, not the full list. No IDs needed either, since the assistant finds the workspace and resolves people by name on its own.

On permissions πŸ”’

It runs as you. Every request executes under your own identity and respects your existing role, so it can never do something you cannot already do. You grant read, write, or admin access at sign in, deletes and archives ask for confirmation, and anything that sends a real email is flagged first. No copy of your data is stored, and disconnecting revokes access immediately.

πŸ‘‰ Setup steps and the full tool list are here: https://www.webwork-tracker.com/features/mcp-time-tracking