Time, estimates and the Earnings Multiplier

The Time tab turns your timers and manual entries into a picture of where the hours went. Its value depends entirely on your tracking being reasonably complete. If you track only the work that feels important, the report will confirm that only important work happens, which is not a finding.

Estimates are the real signal

Tasks carry an Estimated Time. On its own that is just a guess. Set against the time actually tracked it becomes the most useful number you have, because it tells you the size of your personal error and, more importantly, its direction.

Nearly everyone underestimates, and consistently. If your work usually takes half again as long as you thought, that is not a failing to fix, it is a correction factor to apply. Plan with it and your dates stop slipping.

The Earnings tab

The Earnings tab has its own score. It is a different formula from the productivity score on the Overview, on purpose, because the two measure different things. They are not meant to agree and you should not spend an afternoon trying to make them match. Read each one against its own history instead.

The Earnings Multiplier from the Overview is measured against Baseline (×1.000). Baseline is your normal. The multiplier is most useful for comparing periods of your own work, not for comparing yourself to a colleague whose role has an entirely different shape.

One honest limitation

There is no export, print or download in Work Analytics. If you need to share a finding, share the conclusion, or agree the filters with the other person and let them look at their own screen.