Most lawyers and law firms operate on billable hours when charging clients for services. When analyzed, billable hours, also known as billable time, allow clients and law firms the chance to measure ...

U.S. government contracts account for over $700 billion annually, a significant portion of which hinges on the ability of contractors to "establish and maintain an acceptable accounting system," which ...

In classical control theory, both open-loop and closed-loop control systems are commonly used. These systems are well understood and rather straightforward, controlling everything from washing ...

Electronic and digital records allow companies to easily manage and process employee information such as hours worked, but they also come with threats that can do more harm to your business than good.

Time is vital to the functioning of our everyday lives: from the watches on our wrists to the GPS systems in our phones.

From water clocks and sundials to modern smartwatches, the devices we use to tell time have shaped many aspects of civilisation (Credit: Edouard Taufenbach and Bastien Pourtout) The methods we use to ...

For decades, atomic clocks have provided the most stable means of timekeeping. They measure time by oscillating in step with ...

The best clock in the world has no hands, no pendulum, no face or digital display. It’s a jumble of lasers, wires and strontium atoms in Jun Ye’s lab at the National Institute of Standards and ...

A problem is coming for global timekeeping, according to a paper published in the March 27, 2024 issue of Nature by Duncan Agnew, a geophysicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, ...