I work at a tropical fish wholsaler, on land as an aquarist. My job is to keep the animals alive, disease-free, happy and healthy. We have over 15 independent tank systems that can be at 0% capacity (empty) or 100% capacity on any given week. Given that we work with live animals, the nature of the work and time spent in the day fluctuates, such as length of time feeding, length of time cleaning, etc. My employer uses data from a timetracking database to compare weekly time spent on over 16 activities at work to their historical averages, per employee. However, each activity is affected by a number of variables, as I said above, and there is no way to account for these variables in the database. For instance, on week we may have new animals that have arrived and they won't eat that week because of stress, so our activity "feeding" in the database will be recorded as 0. The next week, they will eat, and will eat alot, so there will be data for that activity field. Given that there are variables and unaccounted data when comparing time spent on activities to their historical averages, is this method of time tracking really statistically accurate?
Can anyone cast their vote on this?
Can anyone cast their vote on this?