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Samantha Astorga

Samantha is a Senior People Partner and global HR leader with over 12 years of experience shaping employee experience and organizational growth within the tech industry.
Hands On Time Tracking Software

Best Time Tracking Software for Remote Teams

Tracking time for a team scattered across six timezones is a different sport from tracking time for the people two desks over. The market knows this and has responded with a delightful range of options that quietly stop working the moment someone moves a laptop to a kitchen table. We ran ten platforms through a month of mixed remote work to find the ones that survive the actual job and the ones that are really just employee surveillance dressed for a job interview.

Best Leave Management Systems
Hands On Leave Management Software

Best Leave Management Systems

After setting up leave policies in 8 different platforms - configuring accrual rules, testing approval workflows, and requesting time off from both the manager and employee side - the biggest surprise was how differently these tools define what leave management actually means.