Everhour embeds time tracking controls in Linear, so managers can review submitted team hours by week.
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You need one weekly view of time spent on Linear issues, with each entry tied to the right person, issue, project, and date. The record should show the contributor, the hours recorded, and enough context for a manager to approve the week without reconstructing it from messages, status updates, or standup notes.
A weekly review works best when the team uses the same cadence every week. Contributors record time during the week, submit the week for review, and managers approve, reject, or request corrections before the record feeds payroll, billing, or cost reporting. Late edits lose trust fast, so approved periods need a lock and any admin correction needs a visible history.
Linear issues can carry estimates, and teams can use scales such as Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, or T-Shirt sizing. Those values describe effort or size for planning and flow analysis. They do not replace actual work time, because a completed issue with 5 estimate points can still take 2 hours for one developer and 9 hours for another.
Treat issue estimates as planning input and recorded hours as the operating record. A useful weekly review compares the issue, assignee, status, and project context with the time each person recorded. Managers should watch for missing entries, unusually high daily totals, and manual corrections made after the workweek, because those details affect payroll review and project cost reporting.
A team time record needs consistent fields before anyone approves it. Include the contributor, date, Linear issue, project or team context, hours worked, entry method, and comment when the entry needs explanation. A 3-hour entry against a bug fix can pass review quickly when it includes the issue and date; the same 3 hours without a work item creates cleanup work.
Managers also need a clear review status. Submitted time should be separate from approved time, and rejected entries should return to the employee with a specific correction request. Partial approval matters when one day is correct and another day needs revision. That structure keeps the week moving without forcing the whole submission back into draft.
A free one-off sheet is enough when a small team needs to collect a week of hours and keep a simple record. It handles the immediate job when hours are already known, the review is manual, and the handoff is a spreadsheet or PDF. That breaks down when multiple people edit late, projects run across weeks, or managers need proof of who changed what.
A managed workflow turns submitted hours into an approved operating record. Everhour adds embedded tracking controls for Linear through the browser extension, syncs Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into reports, and supports approvals, locked periods, admin corrections, and exports. That gives payroll, billing, and cost reporting a reviewed source instead of a reconstructed week.
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Managers should review time by person, date, issue, and project context before approval. The review should catch missing days, entries without issue context, unusually high daily totals, and corrections made after the work happened. Approved time should lock for regular members so payroll, billing, or cost reports do not change after the handoff.
Linear estimates should stay separate from recorded hours. Estimates are effort or size values, using scales such as Fibonacci, Linear, Exponential, or T-Shirt. Recorded hours show time actually spent. Converting points directly into hours creates unreliable payroll and cost records because the same estimate can represent different actual effort by person or task.
Entries need a comment or correction when the issue is missing, the hours look out of pattern, the date is wrong, or the work description does not support the recorded time. Managers should reject or partially approve the week when only part of the record is usable. A specific correction request prevents repeated back-and-forth.
Approved weekly time should be locked because late edits change the record after managers have reviewed it. Payroll, billing, and cost reporting rely on the version that was approved. A locked period protects regular members from accidental edits, while admin corrections can still clean up the record when a documented change is necessary.
Team time should include enough detail to connect hours to the right project, issue, contributor, and date. Cost reporting loses accuracy when hours sit under broad categories or unassigned work. A clean record lets managers compare actual time with project context and prepare exports without rebuilding the week from messages or standup notes.
Everhour uses its browser extension to place tracking controls in Linear and sync Linear workspace, project, issue, status, and tag data into Everhour reports. Team members can log time against the Linear work they are doing, while managers review submitted weekly time with the same project and issue context intact.
Everhour supports time submission, approval, rejection, partial approval, and locked periods after approval. Managers can review weekly project hours or working hours, then lock approved time for regular members. Admin corrections remain available when payroll or reporting cleanup requires a controlled change.
Track approved hours from Linear issues in Everhour, then use synced project context, locked periods, and exports to support cleaner payroll, billing, and cost reporting.
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