Awesome work planning
We all know the work starts before the timesheet
Your team already knows there is work to do. Roads to maintain. Libraries to open. Parks to look after. Customers to help. And, of course, the urgent job that arrives just as everyone has their day sorted.
elementTIME is great at capturing what actually happened: what your people did, when they did it and what they used along the way. From there, the same record helps turn a day of council work into clear payroll and financial outcomes.
What about the plan?
Scheduling tells your people when they are working. However, some teams also need to know what they are working on, where, with whom and what resources they will need: in essence, a rostering system.
This is where elementTIME Workplan comes in.
Built with the same idea that drives the rest of elementTIME: make the useful information easy to capture once, then put it to work wherever the council needs it.
Other features of elementTIME:
Plan the work. Then keep the story going.
Work-orders, people, roles, leave, plant and equipment already exist across your council. elementTIME Workplan brings those pieces into the conversation before the work happens, so supervisors can organise what needs doing and who is going to do it.
Then, when the day inevitably does its own thing, the plan should help tell the rest of the story: what changed, what work was completed and what it took to get it done.
One set of information. More than one good use for it.
Built for more than one kind of council team
You know and we know that a road crew and a library team do not organise their days in quite the same way. Neither does the facilities team, the customer service desk or the person who gets called out after hours.
Some teams need to plan jobs and allocate people and plant. Others need to make sure the right people are available at the right time. And plenty need to change course when the weather, an absence or an urgent request has other ideas.
Workplan isn't just rostering - it is a solution developed for local governments different ways of working, with a common connection between the work you intended to do and the work that actually happened. That connection gives managers better context, gives staff a clearer starting point and gives council more useful information for the next plan.
Next up: Myday
No one really wants to spend Friday afternoon trying to remember what happened on Monday.
We are still working through Myday, the next part of the experience.
The idea is simple: show staff what was planned for them, let them reflect on what changed, add the work no one saw coming and confirm what they actually did.
That completed record of work can then support the award interpretation, payroll, work-order costing and financial processes already connected through elementTIME. Managers can see the difference between planned and actual work without asking everyone to reconstruct the week from memory.
Better information, right from the start
When the plan and the actual record live in different places it is easy to lose the 'why' behind the hours. Workplan is our way of bringing that context forward.
What were we going to deliver? Who did we need? What changed? What did we actually do? And what should we plan differently next time?
That is a pretty useful set of questions for operations, workforce planning, payroll and finance to answer together - one dataset, one platform and multiple workforce outcomes for you and your Council.
Want to see where Workplan is heading?
Let's talk about how your teams plan work and how planning with elementTIME Workplan can help you...plan work
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