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October 24′ Product Release

From flexible scheduling to AI-powered insights, Assignar’s October 2024 release is packed with exciting enhancements. Learn how to quickly adjust shift times, share job notes with attachments, streamline payroll with custom time codes, and give your team more mobile access—all designed to make managing your workforce easier than ever.

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Assignar 10 Year Anniversary

Today we reflect back on a decade of helping teams build more. And we’re so excited for what’s ahead too!

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Introducing Progress Tracking

Waiting for invoices to learn the status of a job? Our new progress tracking capability can help! Learn about the suite of features that helps you track work from job planned to job finished.

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Assignar April ’24 Product Release

Spending too much time sorting through form data? The new Forms Analyzer will make it easier than ever to find what you need. Plus, manage leave, track overlapping activities, and link cost codes to activities.

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Assignar January ’24 Product Release

You’ve been asking for it, and offline mode is finally here! Our newest updates allow you to submit time even when there’s no signal, search for workers and equipment based on availability, and integrate with MYOB Advanced.

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Construction Guide: Labor Law Compliance in California

In this expert construction guide, we’ll explore the bumps on the road toward digitization, tech fixes to your challenges, the first step to implementation — and 3 examples from companies leading the charge.

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New Features to Fill Out Crew Timesheets in Under a Minute

If you liked our time-tracking updates last quarter, you’ll love what we have in store in this one!

Learn about the revamped Site Diary, which lets you fill out timesheets for a whole crew in under a minute. Plus, we’ve made rescheduling easy and added Sage Intacct to the Integrations Hub!

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Keeping Time: How to Meet California Compliance in Construction

When you started in construction, did you think you’d spend this much time worrying about time?

Tracking. Collecting. Managing. Reporting. Auditing. 

Time tracking in any business is no joke, but doing it in construction in California is doubly difficult. California has the country’s strictest wage and hour laws—and the penalties to match.
Instead, manage subcontractors at scale (and save hundreds of hours) by streamlining your processes with data.

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How to Streamline Subcontracting Operations with Data-Powered Solutions

When managing 40–50 field workers (or even 10), capturing information on paper leads to even more challenges than it solves. It takes longer to enter data. You’re more likely to make errors. And finding that data after it’s been recorded? That could take weeks.

Instead, manage subcontractors at scale (and save hundreds of hours) by streamlining your processes with data.

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The Top 3 Most Powerful Integrations in Construction Tech

You can’t take shortcuts on the job, but you can minimize administrative tasks and maximize time in the field with the right tools and technology. To optimize your time, the solutions you use must be able to work well together.

Here are the most powerful integrations to transform your tech stack and improve your operational efficiency.

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How to Survive the Supply Chain Crisis

Supply chain struggles converged during the pandemic. While it seemed like issues like these would be short-lived, we’re still dealing with them three years later.

Prices have notably gone up as well. Between materials shortages, weather-related disruptions, transportation struggles, fuel prices and inflation, you’re fighting against a lot of forces working against you. 

So instead of weathering the problem, let’s look at what you can do to conquer it.

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How to Use Data to Increase Margins 1% at a Time

Construction margins are taking a hit due to the problems we know and the new ones arising. The labor shortage, rising material costs and variable fuel costs make it harder to quote projects. Between the time you bid on your project and when you start work, prices have risen.

This volatility means there’s no room for mistakes. So what’s the answer?

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Cut Costs, Boost Profits: Your Construction Cost Management Guide

While we’re no fortune-tellers, we spoke with Assignar CEO and Co-Founder Sean McCreanor and pulled from the top industry reports to identify what you should expect for 2023. 

The big takeaway? Things are changing. Quickly. Here are the top trends in the construction industry—and some tips on embracing them to prepare for the coming year.

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Three Construction Industry Trends to Watch in 2023

While we’re no fortune-tellers, we spoke with Assignar CEO and Co-Founder Sean McCreanor and pulled from the top industry reports to identify what you should expect for 2023. 

The big takeaway? Things are changing. Quickly. Here are the top trends in the construction industry—and some tips on embracing them to prepare for the coming year.

For contractors and the teams behind them

Build Better is coming to Sydney and Brisbane.

A free afternoon with operators running the same jobs you are. Honest stories from the field, a look at what's new across Assignar, and drinks to finish.


Grab your spot in Sydney, 13 October or Brisbane, 15 October. Seats are limited.