Comment by jandrese
Comment by jandrese 7 days ago
So now every engineer has to record how many hours each day were spent doing "software development" vs. "software maintenance"/"overhead"/"etc..."?
Comment by jandrese 7 days ago
So now every engineer has to record how many hours each day were spent doing "software development" vs. "software maintenance"/"overhead"/"etc..."?
This is common in Canada for companies claiming SR&ED credits: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/scientific-...
Why?
They're suggesting you spend a minute or two per month thinking about it, not meticulous tracking.
That might not be practical, but what they are describing is a perfectly good use of the word "just".
A minute or two (or even 10 minutes) per month is basically just guessing/bullshitting. Anything that is accurate rather than imagination requires more overhead than this. Likely anything even remotely accurate requires the sort of micromanagement software that lawyers use to track billable hours, requires desktop-surveillance, and meeting minutes-dissection after-the-fact. Not sure how they will decide to rate reddit doomscrolling when tax season rolls around either, which if we're honest, is some significant fraction of our in-office hours (hell, strangely, some of that time is when I figure out the tricky stuff).
So no, "just" is hardly fair.