| Special Day | 14 Mar, 2025 | World Sleep Day
Trouble sleeping? Friday is an annual event instigated by the World Sleep Society and aims to promote the advantages of healthy sleep cycles and raise awareness of sleep disorders and their direct effect on our health. |
| Special Day | 21 Jun, 2024 | Summer
It's summer! Yay, vacations, parties, pools, barbeques, kids off school... well it is in the Northern hemisphere.
The term 'dogs days of summer' comes from the Romans! Sirius, the dog star was so bright in summer the Romans believed it gave extra |
| Special Day | 08 Jun, 2024 | Enjoy the ocean?
Of course we do, we came from the ocean, the ocean sustains us, producing 50% of our oxygen and protein for billions of us. Today celebrates our oceans and aims to educate us that 90% of big fish populations are depleted, 50% of coral reefs destroyed |
| Special Day | 05 Jun, 2024 | Solving plastic pollution
Microplastics are everywhere, in food, water, air, sea, beaches... if we all avoid plastics when we can we'll help turtles from getting plastic confused with jelly fish, help ourselves and make our summer beach holidays nicer! |
| Special Day | 03 Jun, 2024 | On yer bike!
Whether you ride to get to work, ride for fun, sport or don't or haven't learnt to ride a bike yet, the 3rd is international bicycle day. |
| Blog Post | 24 May, 2024 | How to help employees beat their auto timesheet reminder…
Keeping track of employee hours is a time-consuming process for administrators. Timesheets are an easy solution to tracking staff time, but users can forget to fill in their hours, be “too busy” to complete their timesheet, or make errors with their |
| Special Day | 23 May, 2024 | Vesak", the Day of the Full Moon
Its a full moon today, and the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world as it was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born. He also attained enlightenment on the day of Vesak an |
| Special Day | 21 May, 2024 | Tea anyone?
Tea is the world’s most consumed drink, after water, and today we celebrate Tea. It is believed that tea originated in northeast India, north Myanmar and southwest China, but the exact place where the plant first grew is not known. It has been with u |
| Special Day | 11 May, 2024 | Migrating birds day
Bird conservation is a global issue. This year, the focus is on the three major flyways of migratory birds - . WMBD wishes to increase the level of awareness about the threats – both general and specific – that birds are facing. |
| Blog Post | 07 May, 2024 | Make Outlook a better company calendar with Outlook Optics™
Outlook Optics™ is custom-made for growing businesses that use Outlook as their preferred personal management software but want a company calendar, organization-wide group calendaring, resource scheduling, or to analyze and report on Outlook c |
| Special Day | 30 Apr, 2024 | World Jazz Day
Thank Herbie Hancock for world Jazz day, he suggested it!
Check out what's going on near you to celebrate Jazz. |
| Special Day | 28 Apr, 2024 | World Day for Safety and Health at Work
Accidents can happen at work, and globally the number of deaths occurring as a result of work-related accidents is staggering. This year, safety at work day falls on a Sunday, but it's always good to think about safety at work. |
| Special Day | 26 Apr, 2024 | Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day
We want to forget, but we need to remember. A radioactive cloud spread across Europe and the world, so it affects us all. In 2019 $2.2 billion was provided by 45 nations to update the confinement structure, and we'll need to keep doing this for 20,00 |
| Special Day | 23 Apr, 2024 | English Language Day
Today, every one in four people in the world uses English. English is being used more and more as a way for two speakers with different first languages to communicate with each other.
English language day is set on the 23rd April, thought to be th |
| Special Day | 23 Apr, 2024 | Shakespeare's birthday?
Shakespeare was born & died on the 23rd April - maybe. Without him we wouldn't have the words: Alligator, Bedroom, Downstairs, Eyeball, Gossip, Kissing, Puppy dog, Skim Milk, Undress or Zany! How could we cope? So the boffins at the UN thought it fit |
| Special Day | 22 Apr, 2024 | Earth Day
The first Earth Day in 1970 mobilized millions of Americans from all walks of life to birth the modern environmental movement. Since then, Earth Day has evolved into the largest civic event on Earth, activating billions across 192 countries to safegu |
| Special Day | 12 Apr, 2024 | International Day of Human Space Flight
Today celebrates humanity's space era and the important contribution of space science and technology.
Since 1961 over 200 people have been in space & the link provided gives reflections from people of 10 different countries. It's 22 mins, but if |
| Blog Post | 05 Apr, 2024 | New Outlook scheduling plug-in helps get your resources organized and stay organized
Our new Outlook scheduling plugin brings company resource scheduling features to Outlook, and works with Whitespace®, our resource scheduling software, and our new Outlook Optics™ group calendar and resource scheduling system for Outlook. The |
| Special Day | 04 Apr, 2024 | 404 day
Some boffins created 404 Day as a campaign to warn everyone that the internet is full of bottlenecks and rotting infrastructure, especially in public schools and libraries. This day is dedicated to raising awareness about Internet filtering in public |
| Special Day | 01 Apr, 2024 | New Microsoft AI software reads your brainwaves via your mouse!
Microsoft has released amazing new AI software that reads subtle electrical impulses via your wired or bluetooth mouse.
Now, instead of typing or speaking, just by holding the mouse and thinking you can control your PC, but it must be a Windows t |
| Special Day | 30 Mar, 2024 | World Zero Waste day
Apparent we (humanity) generate an estimated 2.24 billion tons of municipal solid waste per year, around 931 million tons of food is lost or wasted and up to 14 million tons of plastic waste enters aquatic ecosystems.
Zero Waste Day aims to raise |
| Special Day | 21 Mar, 2024 | International Forest Day
Forests give us so much, they purify the water, clean the air, capture carbon to fight climate change, provide food and life-saving medicines, and improve our well-being.
This day celebrates & raises awareness of all forest types & encourages us t |
| Special Day | 20 Mar, 2024 | Alien abduction day
Alien Abduction Day is celebrated on March 20 every year. No one knows why this date was chosen, maybe aliens did? A substantial number of people claim to have seen and experienced aliens, even though some people do not believe in aliens and it is fr |
| Special Day | 20 Mar, 2024 | Spring Day
It's nearly Spring - Yay! Well, the 20th March will be Spring in the northern Hemisphere, but one thing that is the same all over the world is that it is International day of happiness! |
| Special Day | 17 Mar, 2024 | St Patricks Day
Unless you’ve been living under the Blarney Stone you know that March 17 is St. Patrick’s Day. Also affectionately known as St. Paddy’s Day, it’s the one day each year that everyone and anyone can call themselves Irish – if not by birthright, then in |
| Special Day | 15 Mar, 2024 | World Sleep Day
Trouble sleeping? Friday is an annual event instigated by the World Sleep Society and aims to promote the advantages of healthy sleep cycles and raise awareness of sleep disorders and their direct effect on our health. |
| Special Day | 14 Mar, 2024 | Pi Day
Archimedes worked out the value of Pi (and some other clever stuff including calculus) some 2,200 years ago on a beach armed with a stick. At 1:58, celebrate Pi and all it gave us, cos 3/14 1:58 is what he calculated - 223/71 < π < 22/7 or 3.14158, p |
| Special Day | 10 Mar, 2024 | International Day of Women Judges
International Day of Women Judges holds every March 10 to recognize the contributions of women judges worldwide & is part of global effort to ensuring gender equality and to address gender-related judicial integrity issues. It aims to incorporate wom |
| Blog Post | 05 Mar, 2024 | AI Time Tracking and Automatic time tracking, how does it work?
Timewatch has been researching the use of AI for many years now and has so far trialed multiple approaches to AI time tracking and AI timesheet entry including voice and chat. It’s true that AI can help with time tracking, but most approaches actuall |
| Special Day | 29 Feb, 2024 | Leap Year
It's a leap year sometime |
| Special Day | 22 Feb, 2024 | World Thinking Day
World Thinking Day is celebrated on 22 February by all Girl Guides & Girl Scouts. It is also celebrated by Scout & Guide organizations around the world. It is a day when they think about their "sisters" (& "brothers") in all the countries of the wor |
| Special Day | 12 Feb, 2024 | Darwin Day
Darwin Day is a celebration to commemorate the birthday of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809. The day is used to highlight Darwin's contributions to science and to promote science in general. Darwin Day is celebrated around the world. |
| Blog Post | 08 Feb, 2024 | Automatic time tracking with Outlook
If our timesheet system could read your employee’s minds and fill out their timesheets for them automatically, would you use it? Okay, well we can’t read people’s minds, but we can actually do the automatic time tracking part. |
| Blog Post | 27 Nov, 2023 | How To Avoid and Resolve a Work Scheduling Conflict
A scheduling conflict is when two or more events or activities are set to take place at the same time. This type of double booking can be – or become – a major issue for employees, managers, or project completion. It doesn’t have to be th |
| Blog Post | 07 Nov, 2023 | Are Your Timesheets Really Secure? How Timewatch Locks In Timesheet Security
Secure timesheets are important for your business or organization. Timesheets contain sensitive data including customer, project, and employee details as well as cost rates, recharge rates, and competitive commercial information which can be damaging |
| Blog Post | 03 Nov, 2023 | Google Calendar time tracking – how to use Google calendars as a timesheet
You’ve probably already realized that Google calendars has most of the information needed for time tracking. If only you could add a customer, maybe a project, report on time spent, or maybe link this information with your timesheet. Well, you |
| Special Day | 31 Oct, 2023 | Halloween
Halloween 2023 on October 31 is undoubtedly the creepiest, most ghostly holiday of them all. Children dress up as Batman, the Joker, Wonder Woman, or some other favorite character; go to parties or walk their neighborhoods with jack o’ lanterns full |
| Blog Post | 19 Oct, 2023 | How to create an Outlook team calendar for effective team scheduling
We are often asked how to create an Outlook Team Calendar to view team calendars, perform employee scheduling and analyse team productivity, availability, capacity, etc. |
| Blog Post | 22 Sep, 2023 | How to make Outlook a more collaborative calendar for resource scheduling
Microsoft 365 Outlook is a common choice for organization-wide calendaring and resource scheduling. Outlook is an excellent calendar / scheduling resource for individuals, but there are many enhancements that can be added to improve its collaborative |
| Blog Post | 21 Aug, 2023 | One Outlook, Microsoft’s latest version of Outlook released a preview
Microsoft released ‘One Outlook’ to the public through Windows Insiders on May 17, 2023. Timewatch has been tracking the development and release of this forthcoming version for some time, and it’s good news. |
| Blog Post | 14 Aug, 2023 | What is Resource Capacity Planning?
Resource capacity planning is how a business defines the amount of work that can be performed by an organization’s resources over a period of time and how the business can allocate that work to its available resources to meet current and future |
| Blog Post | 10 Jul, 2023 | How to create an Office 365 Group Calendar that makes Outlook even better
Outlook is a great product from the perspective of an individual employee. Timewatch makes it even better – especially for a business looking for a big picture perspective. Timewatch can help you make better use of Outlook and improve your busi |
