Software for Managing Timesheets?

An anonymous reader asks: "I currently work as a help desk supervisor for the IT department of a Top 30 American university. We have around 40 graduate and undergraduate students manning our support areas at different times of the day and night, and a recent augmentation of our budget has us in the position to hire more. We still do our master schedule with a moderately complex Excel file, our time sheets are submitted online using a webpage, and our workers' clock in and out with a separate webpage which gives us reports that we import into yet another spreadsheet. Needless to say, our current, time-consuming method is rather clunky and has us looking at alternatives. What existing systems are out there that might fill our needs? What systems should we avoid?"

Re:Domain Logon

[LordEd]

Time logged in does not necessary equal time worked. People have meetings, reboot computers, work on paper, etc. What happens if somebody forgets to log off?

Vacation/Sick Time Thingie...

[__aaclcg7560]

Make sure that the Vacation/Sick Time thing works and can be corrected if there's a problem. At one company I worked out, it was broken. I got sick for a while that my boss forced me to use sick time even though I wanted to use vacation time as I knew I was out of sick time. When they got it working again, I was in the hole for a whole year on sick time. I was repeatedly warned that I could be fired for this situation. My boss wouldn't admit he made a mistake, HR said there wasn't anything to do about and I made vague threats of resolving this in a court of law. When I later quit, I was surprised they didn't charged me for the sick time that I owe them. Go figure.