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Field Efficiency, and what each number means

You can read every number on the tab without being misled by the three names for one rate, the first-to-last-capture day.

Where: web portal, Analytics, then the Field Efficiency tab.

When you finish: you can read every number on the tab without being misled by the three names for one rate, the first-to-last-capture day, or the twenty-second floor on time per pole.

This tab answers one question: how much gets done, and where does the rest of the time go. Open Analytics, then the Field Efficiency tab, or arrive from a day replay.

Open How these are worked out once. The panel is closed by default, and it is the best explanation of these numbers that exists anywhere, better than this article.


Four things that mislead people

What you see

What it actually means

One rate under three names: poles per hour while collecting, while working, or just working

The same number. The screen's labels are inconsistent; your data is not. Hold onto the relationship instead: Poles / hr ≤ At job ≤ Working. Each is the same output over a narrower slice of time. Poles / hr is the honest one for planning; Working is the flattering one.

A working day

First capture to last capture, not a shift or a timesheet. Every percentage is a share of that window. Good for comparing shape between crews, bad for anything to do with hours paid.

Time on one pole

A floor, not a measurement. When the app saves everything about an object at once, which happens on roughly a fifth of them, the time comes out around twenty seconds regardless.

A table of dashes

The page declining to calculate a rate it cannot calculate honestly. See Field Efficiency only shows dashes

The Field efficiency tab (ringed) and its three per-hour cards. They match here because the sample day has no travel.
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When it warns about GPS, the time breakdown for that day is incomplete: the split between working, travelling and stopped is not reliable. Capture counts are still fine.


Change what you are looking at

  • Window: one week to ninety days.

  • Org Admins and Workforce Managers can narrow to one fielder; everyone else sees only their own activity.

  • Group by day (what happened on Tuesday) or by fielder (how is this crew doing).

    The table and a day lane. The arrow by the fielder's name (ringed) replays that day.
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  • Drag across a lane to zoom into it. Each day offers to replay itself; see Replay a fielder's day.

From the Field efficiency tab to replaying one day.
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Compare a crew against itself over time, not against another crew. Terrain, job type and access vary far more than technique, and this page cannot see any of that. If a number looks wrong, check the GPS warning and the date window first.


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