What is a good time-entry compliance rate?

Above 90% of timesheets submitted on time is the working threshold where downstream PSA reports become trustworthy; successful rollouts usually reach it by week six. Chasing 100% is the wrong target, since the last few percent costs more management attention than the data is worth. Treat a sustained drop below 90% as an open problem.

How long does it take a team to adopt a new PSA?

Expect the time-entry habit to lock in within 4-6 weeks if weekly manager approvals run from day one, and expect the PSA to feel like the firm's default way of working by roughly day 90. Plan for a compliance dip in weeks 2-3 after go-live; it appears in most rollouts and is manageable when anticipated.

How do you get senior staff to track time?

Leadership modeling beats mandates. When partners answer questions from the PSA in meetings and submit their own time on schedule, compliance below them follows within weeks. The reverse also holds: one visibly exempt senior person licenses the whole firm to slip. Apply the source-of-truth rule to leadership first, then to everyone else.

Should you tie time-entry compliance to performance reviews?

Not as a first move. Visibility, weekly approvals, and friction fixes solve most compliance problems without formal consequences, and leading with penalties frames the PSA as surveillance. Reserve performance-review consequences for chronic cases that persist after friction is removed and a manager conversation has happened, applied consistently across seniority levels.

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