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Alex De Bonis

Alex is Co-Founder and Head of Product Design. She brings more than 10 years of experience designing outstanding customer journeys spanning multiple verticals, including property, lifestyle, retail, arts, and culture. She had founded her own agency before co-founding Workyard with her brother Nic De Bonis.

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How To Track Employee Mileage: What To Know

May 20, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

If you have employees that travel for business, it’s important to track their mileage. Tracking employee mileage improves your client reimbursements, gives you key insights into your business budget, and helps improve employee productivity.  But if you’re relying on self-reported numbers or mileage sheets, tracking employee mileage can be difficult. Let’s take a look at …

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Best Practices For Creating a Work in Progress Construction Report

May 13, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

Track the progress of your construction project—and the disposition of your project budget—with a work in progress (WIP) report. By tracking the status of your project, you can identify any potential problems and correct them before they cause delays or cost overruns. You can also keep employees, subcontractors, and clients appraised of progress and reduce …

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The Step-by-Step Construction Cost Reporting Guide

May 10, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

Avoid going over budget with construction cost reporting. This step-by-step construction cost reporting guide will answer all of your questions.

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What Is GPS-Based Time Clock: Benefits for Your Business

April 29, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

A GPS-based time clock app improves the accuracy of your labor management and reduces labor expenses.

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Construction Scheduling Best Practices & Tools Every Project Manager Needs

April 22, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

Construction scheduling best practices are an important part of a well-rounded team and efficient project management.

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How To Calculate Overhead Costs in Construction Projects? A Complete Guide

April 15, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

Keep your overhead under control. Learn how to calculate overhead costs in construction projects.

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how to prevent buddy punching: construction supervisor monitoring time on-site.

How To Prevent Buddy Punching: 5 Proven Techniques

April 1, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

When employees buddy punch, you can’t rely on the accuracy of your employee data. Here’s how to prevent buddy punching and reduce labor costs.

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How To Track Field Employee Hours

March 25, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

Your field employees are out there when you aren’t. So how do you know that they are where they need to be? It’s not just a matter of trust. Field employees can easily lose track of hours, client site locations, and driving time. Those lost hours become your expenses.  From paper sheets to GPS-powered apps, …

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The Best Time Tracking Apps for Construction of 2022

March 11, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

The Best Time Tracking Apps for Construction Stop managing employee time with phone calls, text messages, and emails. Guarantee that your employees know when to be onsite, and never miss breaks, overtime, or time off again. Time tracking apps for construction improve worker productivity, reduce unnecessary overtime, automatically calculate your job labor costs and decrease …

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Job Costing for Construction 101: Everything You Need To Know

March 7, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

You have a job to do tomorrow. How much will it cost? If you’re just estimating loosely based on your previous jobs, you’re probably missing out on a lot of revenue. In construction, cost is everything. Frequently, the market sets the price on your bid—and you need to be able to match your competitors. The …

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Automatically Sync Jobs & Service Items from Quickbooks Online

February 24, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

When you’ve got thousands of customers, jobs or even hundreds of service items in QuickBooks Online, it can become difficult to manage this data. Workyard has always made this easier by allowing you import customers, jobs and service items directly from Quickbooks at the click of a button. Today, we’re going one step further by …

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Construction Company Cost Reduction Strategies

February 11, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

For a construction company, cost reduction isn’t just about increasing profits. Everything from the economy to the seasons can impact construction companies. By reducing your construction costs, you create a more resilient company. What can you do to reduce your construction costs while still growing your business? We’re going to take a look at three …

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Q&A: How To Keep Track of Construction Employee Hours

February 4, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

Between planning projects, placing bids, and fixing other people’s mistakes, you’re probably one of the busiest people you know. On top of all that, you need to manage your employees’ time.  If you haven’t figured out how to keep track of construction employee hours in the most reliable or efficient way yet, you’re not alone.  …

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Optimize Your Construction Labor Tracking Spreadsheet for Greater Productivity

January 21, 2022 by Alex De Bonis

A worker clocks in at the shop at 8:15—but, shrugging, he writes in 8:00. After arriving at the job site at 9:43, he rounds it to 9:30. Later, he takes a break and forgets to write that down at all. At home that evening, he realizes he never looked at the clock when he left …

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Organize, Categorize, and Prioritize Your Work with Workyard Task Color Labels

December 8, 2021 by Alex De Bonis

There’s a lot to talk about in this month’s product update. But before we do, we just wanted to wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a happy new year. Be merry, be safe, and don’t drink all of that homemade eggnog in one sitting. What’s New Organize, Categorize and Prioritize Your Work with Task …

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Easily View & Sort Tasks in Workyard

October 18, 2021 by Alex De Bonis

Measuring your team’s work is part of the battle. The other part is managing it. That’s why we’ve made it even easier to see work progress and manage your crew in Workyard. Save time by seeing consolidated lists of all tasks instead of scrolling day by day in the calendar view. Easily View & Sort …

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Workyard Eliminates Even More Data Entry With ADP Run Integration

August 2, 2021 by Alex De Bonis

You’ve told us that one of the headaches of managing your payroll is all the administrative work that goes into it.  One poor soul told us she spent 10 hours a month pulling together the data needed to get the crew paid accurately and on time. And tax season? Don’t even get her started. That’s …

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Save Time With Bulk Time Card Creation & Editing

June 30, 2021 by Alex De Bonis

Workyard makes it easy for your crew to use their phones to create construction’s most accurate time cards.  But what if they don’t have a smartphone or they forget to create a time card? To help you save time when you need to create and edit your employee time cards, we’re excited to release our …

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Easier Than Ever To Tag Hours To Projects In Workyard

June 1, 2021 by Alex De Bonis

Holy 37,000 time cards! That’s the total number of time cards workers have created in Workyard so far in 2021. And all that usage has helped us find even more ways to improve Workyard for you. So what have we done for you lately (that’s a fair question, btw)? Check out the latest updates in …

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