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Unusable Timesheet Files

I have three people who submit timesheets in Word, two who paste images into emails, and one who insists on a handwrit…

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I have three people who submit timesheets in Word, two who paste images into emails, and one who insists on a handwritten scan that is unreadable. I’m due to send the consolidated payroll packet by 10am Monday and cannot afford payroll delays or a supervisor calling me about overtime disputes. Diagnose whether this is sloppy compliance, missing guidance, or a tooling problem, tell me the quickest operational change that gets correctly formatted timesheets by Monday, and give me a short message to send that gets cooperation without sounding punitive.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

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The weekly timesheets are due Friday and I still have six staff sending unusable files.

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