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I used to find myself in the exact same situation in my previous company.We were working on a SAAS product as a startup, while in parallel operating as an agency, servicing different clients. Imagine the mess!We had product managers, product owners, sales people, developers for our product, developers for custom projects, etc. On top of that we had to track everyones time because we needed to bill the clients.Everyone had to track every single thing including toilet time! No wonder that there was huge resistance to this.We needed to come up with a solution. After a bunch of trials we found a few things that helped to turn things around:Communicate the importance for the business:We used bi-weekly meetings to demonstrate hours-based client reports including financials and revenue. These hours came straight from the time tracking tool.Use a tool that doesn’t disrupt:There are hundreds of time tracking tools out there. All of them have different workflows and methods. Figure out which one is easiest to use and follows your existing workflow too.Demonstrate personal benefit:Time tracking tools can be great for personal improvement. We use Jibble.io’s individual statistics to improve our own productivity every day. Once people experience the benefit of the tool themselves, they will want to start tracking time!Only track activities that gives you valuable insight:Honestly, what use is tracking potty time? Are we gonna punish women for peeing more often than men? Only track the hours that help you achieve something. In general this shouldn’t go much further than billable work or anything project/product and sales related.Goodluck!

I was in same situation as you when I got my canada PR I had 7+ years of experience in IT. My wife also had same experience.I moved to canada in 2016 after winding up everything in India. Left my decent paying job in Pune. My wife went 6 months before i went as she had parents in Canada. I continued my job in India and she was trying to find a job. She found a job in 3 months.From my personal experience I would say initial 6–8 months would be really tough if you don't have any relatives to support. Trying to find a job and getting all things necessary for settling like driving license, bank accounts, health cards, finding place to stay etc.There are lot of jobs in software development in almost any technology. You just have to be little flexible. I would suggest either of the you should do contracting as that pays a lot of money and you can account some expenses and save on taxes. Also one can take advantage of other partners benefits from permanent job.The biggest problem people who come here is to come with lot of expectations and no preparation at all. One should have a concrete plan of settlement before landing with atleast 1000 cad per month per person for 6–8 months . Be in touch with Recruiter in the specific area where you will be moving. Network with people and recruiter community on linkedin and find about career opportunities in your specific skillset. Don't be stuck with specific role or teechnology , you have to be flexible with any kind of job.To give you perspective , I had virtual phone number of canada before even landing here. I updated my LinkedIn with number and changed my location on linkedin, soon I started getting calls from Recruiters and HR. I gave few skype interviews and they were ready for next round of discussion but they didn't wanted to wait for too long till I land there. I was constantly in touch with recruiters and had arranged few interviews when I landed there. I had 6 months contract job in 3 days after landing here.I got myself Incorporated in 30 minutes and opened a small business account and started working as IT consultant and in 1 year I had 2 clients and consultee them in their IT business. We got our own house in 3 months after I landed here. Compared to india my salary is like 10 times what I used to earn in India. Ofcourse expenses are also a lot but then you save a lot too.Coming to universal healthcare and education, it is good but it has wait times if you need to see a specialist, but thats with any country which has social benifits. Education is free till high school and is rated at par with most developed countries. Overall its good if you prepare yourself well before landing here.Edit :1 Many people have asked my email address, added me on FB and Linked In to know more about immigration to Canada. I cannot individually address all your concerns or questions as that is not my profession. Applying for immigration to Canada under express entry program is very simple and very well documented on cic website www.cic.gc.ca.I can rundown the overall process but you can always go to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada | Immigration, Réfugiés et Citoyenneté Canada and find out more about the process.Find out of if you are eligible to apply under express entry program as skilled worker. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.aspYou should find out in which skilled category you fall based on your education or work experience. You should have minimum 1yr of experience in your specified category to be eligible to apply under express entry. To find your your category code use below link. For express entry skill type 0, A&B are applicable. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-who.asp3. To apply under express entry program you should have language skills which you can prove by giving IELTS or CELPIP exam for english or TEF for french. You should have minimum CLB 7 for english or NCLC 7 for french as your first official language, or CLB 5 or NCLC 5 as second official language.Note : Both English and french are not mandatory, but English is mandatory, you won’t score additional points for french if you don’t give french Exam. Starting june 6 if you have french score of above NCLC 5 then you get additional 30 points in your CRS score.4. You should also get your education assessed to prove that your education is equivalent to education in Canada, you can get it done from WES(www.wes.org). It takes around 1–2 months to get education assessed. http://www.wes.org/ca/fswp/requireddocuments/5. You would also need to arrange letter of references from all your employers stating your duties and responsibilities, dates of employment and number of hours per week(Note it should state you were employed full time and not part time). This letter should be on letter head of the organization signed by your supervisor or HR .6. Once you have IELTS test results, Education assessment certificate, you need to calculate your score using below link. Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) tool - Skilled immigrants (Express Entry).7. Create your express entry profile by filling in all your details about personal, education, work experience, language test results, travel history, sibilings or relatives in canada etc. Please fill in all your details carefully as online application will assign you a score based on details your enter. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/e-services/mycic.asp8. Every bi-weekly there is a draw conducted by CIC and high ranking candidates are invited to apply for immigration. Please note that you will get an invite only if you Express entry profile is created and active and your score is high enough to get an invite( typically 420+ out of 1200).Take a look at history of invitation based on CRS score from past 2 years. Express Entry results: Previous rounds of invitationsyou can also look at number of candidates under each CRS score ranges, this will give you some idea if at all you can expect an invite. Express Entry rounds of invitations9. Once you get an invite , you have 90 days to submit full application with forms filled in and documents scanned and uploaded. Determine your eligibility - Federal skilled workers10. You should proof of funds which depends on number of applicants in an application. Proof of funds - Skilled immigrants (Express Entry). These funds can be in form of bank balance, investments or savings in form of ppf or epf which can be liquidated before you immigrate . Assets like car, house and land are not considered. Typically 6 months of statement is required to be submitted , so if you are taking money from parents or friends make sure you take a gift authorization from them .11. You need to arrange Police clearance certificate from your home country & all the countries where you have stayed for more than 6 months.12. You also need to undergo medical clearance before you immigrate, generally this can be done once you are requested to undergo medical exam.13 Once your application is processed(at least 80% of applications are processed in 6 months after applying), you will be asked to send your passport to local embassy to stamp a temporary visa so that you can land in Canada. You will also recieve CoPR(Confirmation of Permanent residence) which is valid for 1 year from the date of your medical exam. You need to land and claim your PR before its validity.Below are some of the things that you have to do after landing into Canada as Permanent residentWhen you land, you will be asked to go to special counter for first time immigrants and they will ask you general questions.Next you will go for security, here they might ask you to show proof of funds , if you don’t have sufficient funds as per your family size, you might be asked to go back and your PR will be cancelled. Funds can be in form of cash or travellers cheque or Balance Statement from Canadian/US bank. If you are carrying more than 10k CAD in cash or travellers cheques you have to report it at the security else you will be put in jail.Get a list of things that you are carrying at the time of landing and also things that you will bring later into the country. Specially get all your jwellery and expensive items attested so that you don’t need to pay any duties when you bring them when you enter Canada.You need to apply for SIN number after you land, you can get it from Service Canada office in your area. Its just a number and not a card.You can open a bank account once you have a SIN number, and get a credit card to staring building your credit history.You are not covered by health insurance till 90 days after you land, you need to get a private insurance upto 90 days , in this time you should apply for your health card which you will get in 6–8 weeks time, but the coverage starts only after 90 days. Health card gives you privilege to get health checkups and visit to physician or specialist free of charge, you don’t need to pay anything to Dr. or clinic, not even for medical test.Apply for G1 license, which is an online exam to test your knowledge about driving in province where you are going to drive. Once you have G1 license then you can drive a car with any experienced driver and schedule your drive test G2 which is almost full driving privilege . Once you have G2 then you can drive anywhere alone . Don’t forget to get driving experience extract from RTO in india and no claim certificate from your car insurance provider to get insurance discount here.If you are going to Toronto or GTA , then you would need presto card or TTC depending on where you are going to stay and commute to. This helps to use public transit. You can find more info on Tap On. Ride Easy. or ttc website .Other than IT engineers, finding job in other fields is not easy and can take upto 6 months to find a right job. You need to get Canadian certification for profession in finance, account , insurance etc.Recruiter who ask you to meet personally before representing you to client is very normal, and this is to see your communication skills and overall qualification for the job.

Seems like people have been inventing tools for this since the industry began.To me, the yearly review should be a surprise to neither the employee nor the manager, because both have been working on it implicitly as a part of their weekly interactions. This isn't about tools, it is about a manager and employee doing the work needed to communicate regularly on the material which makes up a yearly review.Here's how I would go about it (I used a variation of these steps at Netscape when I managed 3 teams in the client computing division; experience since then has led to some changes):Require employees to write a weekly P4 status report. P4 == Priorities, Plans, Progress, Problems. Post them somewhere where they are easily accessible to you, the employee, and perhaps the team as well.Hold weekly or bi-weekly meetings with your teams to communicate coarse-grained priorities, goals.Weekly, hold a 30 minute one on one with each employee. Discuss last week's status report. Make sure priorities are clear. Discuss any problems the employee mentions, and give feedback. Write notes regarding areas for improvement, successes, goals expressed by the employee after each meeting.Quarterly, have the employee go back and review the status reports they wrote for the quarter (there will be about 12 of them, should be no big deal). Have the employee write a status report that summarizes the big ticket items from the quarter as found in the status reports. You can then take that status report, and the notes you have been keeping, and write your part of what would be a yearly review.When done, extend the next weekly one on one to one hour and work on the review. Make it a positive experience, focusing on rewards and identifying goals, areas for improvement.Your yearly review, when it comes time, is just another one of these quarterly review exercises. None of it should be particularly hard, and it should contain no surprises.Don't worry about getting buy-in from HR or other peers to do this sort of thing. As a manager, you should have the discretion to run your one on ones, and gather status, as best suits your needs; you don't have to wait for the company to bless your process in order to get things done. While the "official" yearly review must be consistent to some company standard, the work you do leading up to it is your business. All that matters is that what the company requires of you be as good as it can be. How you get there, it's up to you.Knowing your employee isn't something you should put off until once a year reviews. Absorb the your yearly review process into your weekly one on ones with your employees. The results will be better in the end, and you and the employee will be much more aware of goals and feedback during the course of the year.