Everhour captures Linear issue hours and supports weekly review, approvals, locked periods, and payroll review.
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A useful weekly timesheet for Linear work starts with the work structure your team already uses: issues, projects, assignees, status, tags, and cycles. The timesheet adds an operating record on top of that context, which person worked, on which issue, on which day, for how long, and whether the entry is ready for review.
Approval matters because team time is shared evidence, not a personal note. A developer can log time while moving through issue work, but a manager still needs to review weekly totals, spot missing days, question unusual daily totals, and send corrections back before payroll review, billing review, cost reporting, or capacity review uses the hours.
A complete review record includes the person, date, Linear issue or project, tracked hours, entry source, and comments where the time needs explanation. A weekly grid works well because it shows daily totals beside issue-level detail. Managers can compare project hours with working hours, then check whether time off or non-project work explains a gap before approving the week.
Issue estimates should stay separate from approved hours. Linear estimate values describe effort or size, with scales such as Fibonacci, Linear, Exponential, or T-Shirt. They do not replace a time record for payroll review or cost reporting. If an issue was estimated at 5 points and the contributor logged 6 hours, keep both values visible instead of converting one into the other.
The main approval mistake is closing the week before missing or misfiled entries are fixed. A manager should review late manual entries, time posted to the wrong issue, blank comments on unusual totals, and entries that do not match the person assigned to the work. Corrections belong before approval because payroll review and cost reports rely on a stable reviewed period.
Locked periods protect that reviewed record. After submission, the timesheet should stop casual edits unless the employee withdraws it or a manager rejects it for correction. After approval, regular members should not change the record. Admin corrections still matter when a payroll or reporting review finds entries that need cleanup after the weekly approval cycle.
A one-off review is enough when you need to inspect a single week, clean up a short project, or export hours for a small handoff. It breaks down when the team repeats the same cycle every week, when late edits affect payroll review, or when project cost reports need approved hours rather than draft entries.
Everhour turns collected Linear issue time into a managed review workflow. Team members log with timers or manual entries, managers review submitted timesheets, approved periods stay locked for regular members, and admins can correct records when review requires cleanup. Reports, team timesheets, and full team logs can be exported for the next review step.
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The approver should be the person accountable for the time record, usually an engineering manager, project lead, operations manager, or finance reviewer. The approver needs enough context to judge whether hours belong to the right Linear issues and enough authority to reject, partially approve, or request corrections before payroll review or cost reporting uses the week.
Review entries with missing issue links, unusually high or low daily totals, late manual additions, time posted to closed or unrelated work, and comments that do not explain the work. Also check time off and non-project work when working-hour totals and project-hour totals do not line up for the week.
Estimates and approved hours serve different purposes. Linear estimate values describe effort or size, while approved timesheet hours show time actually worked. Payroll review, cost reporting, billing review, and utilization analysis need hours tied to dates and people. Keep estimates for planning and use approved hours for reviewed operating records.
A lock keeps the approved week from changing after payroll review, billing review, or cost reporting starts using it. Without a lock, a late edit can change totals after managers have already reviewed the record. Admins can still make corrections when needed, but regular members should not rewrite approved weeks.
The cycle breaks when people submit time after the manager has reviewed the week, log hours to broad project buckets instead of specific issues, or edit approved entries without a documented reason. A clear deadline, manager review step, and locked approved period keep the weekly record consistent.
Everhour Time Tracking lets team members record Linear issue and project hours with timers or manual entries, then feeds those entries into timesheets, reports, budgets, invoicing, and payroll review. Admin controls support approvals, locked periods, reminders, and timer rules, so weekly review has a controlled workflow.
Everhour lets admins correct time entries for team members when payroll, billing, or reporting review needs cleanup. Approved time stays locked for regular members, so corrections happen through admin controls instead of asking employees to reopen and rewrite old weeks.
Track Linear issue time in Everhour, review submitted weeks, lock approved periods, and export reports or team timesheets for payroll review and cost reporting.
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