Work Hours Tracker

Clock in when you start and out when you stop; each shift lands in a session list with its own duration, above running totals for today and this week.

What is the Work Hours Tracker?

The Work Hours Tracker is a punch clock rather than a timesheet editor. Clock In starts a live counter in hours, minutes and seconds, Clock Out closes the shift and files it with its start time, end time and length, and two summary cards keep a running total for today and for the week beginning Monday. Everything is held in the open page, which makes this a tool for measuring a day as it happens rather than a place to store weeks of history.

Key Features

• Live counter ticks in hours, minutes and seconds while clocked in
• Each closed shift files its start time, end time and duration
• Today and This Week totals are shown as hours and minutes
• The weekly total is measured from Monday, not from Sunday
• Reset clears the log and closes any shift still running

Common Use Cases

• Timing a freelance block so an invoice line reflects the work actually done
• Checking whether a nominal eight-hour day really came to eight hours
• Separating billable stretches for two clients by clocking out between them
• Recording a shift's start and end to reconcile against an employer's system

How to Use the Work Hours Tracker

1. Press Clock In; the status line turns green and the counter starts from zero.
2. Press Clock Out at the end of the stretch to file it into Session History.
3. Clock in again after lunch, leaving the unpaid gap outside any recorded session.
4. Read Today and This Week for the totals, each shown as hours and minutes.
5. Divide the minutes by 60 when payroll wants decimal hours, so 7h 45m becomes 7.75.

Tips for Best Results

• Nothing is stored, so a reload or a closed tab wipes every session and both totals.
• This Week only sums what you logged in this sitting, so it cannot really span days.
• Quarter hours convert cleanly: 15 minutes is 0.25, 30 is 0.5, 45 is 0.75.
• Rows and totals round down to the whole minute, so seconds vanish from the figures.

Why Use WiserWork's Work Hours Tracker?

Payroll runs on decimal hours while clocks run on minutes, and the gap between the two is where most timesheet arguments start: eight hours and twenty minutes is 8.33, not 8.20. Logging a shift as it happens also beats reconstructing Friday from memory, which reliably flatters the good days and forgets the short ones. For a single day at a time, a clock in a browser tab with nothing to install and no account behind it is enough.

Who Uses the Work Hours Tracker?

Freelancers and contractors billing by the hour, shift workers who want their own record beside the employer's, and salaried staff curious about where a day actually went. Students and self-employed people also use it to check that a stated rate matches the hours a job genuinely consumes.

Frequently Asked Questions

Are my sessions saved if I close the tab?

No. The log lives only in the open page, so refreshing, closing or navigating away clears the history and returns Today and This Week to zero. Write down or screenshot anything you need to keep.

How do I handle an unpaid lunch break?

Clock out when you leave and clock back in when you return. The gap is simply never recorded, so the break is excluded from Today rather than subtracted afterwards.

Do short breaks count as paid time?

Under US federal rules, short rest breaks of roughly 5 to 20 minutes generally count as hours worked, while a genuine meal break of 30 minutes or more, with you relieved of duty, generally does not. State rules and your own contract can differ, so check them before adjusting a timesheet.

How do I convert the totals to decimal hours?

Divide the minutes by 60 and add them to the hours. 7h 45m is 7.75 hours, 8h 20m is 8.33 hours, and 6h 10m is about 6.17 hours.

When does the week start?

Monday. If your employer runs a Sunday-to-Saturday workweek, which is common in US payroll, the This Week figure will not line up with theirs around the weekend.

Can I type in a shift I forgot to log?

No. There is no manual entry and no editing; the only way in is to clock in and clock out live. For a shift that has already happened, work the duration out yourself and record it elsewhere.

Does it calculate pay?

No. There is no rate field, no overtime rule and no export. It counts time, and turning that into money is left to you or to your payroll system.

Why is my Today total a minute ahead of the sessions listed?

Durations are floored to the whole minute for display, both per session and in the totals. Several sessions each losing a few seconds can leave the visible rows slightly behind the visible total.

What does Reset do while I am clocked in?

It closes the running shift first, then wipes the history and sets both totals back to zero. There is no undo, so use it only when you are finished with the log.

Can I run it on my phone during a shift?

It works in a mobile browser, but the tab has to stay alive; if the browser discards the page in the background, the running shift and the history go with it. On a phone, clock out at every break rather than leaving it running for hours.

Punch in, punch out around the break, and read the day off the two summary cards before converting minutes into decimals. Just do not close the tab expecting to find the log there tomorrow.