Google Workspace and the Pomodoro Method.

I had been using the Pomodoro method on my workings, working some 20-25 minutes, followed by a small break, stretching my legs, exercising my fingers, wrists, even relaxing my eyes.  Then after two hours, the break is extended to some 15-30 minutes, as per policy.

This whole time, I'm between Google Workspace(formerly GSuite) and the Libre Office apps.  The advantage of the Libre Office suite is its own disadvantage as well, that I don't need to wait for network to do things, and yet, sometimes, I like the automatic cloud presence with Google Workspace.

I'm forever commenting about a lack of features in Workspace, yet I'm stuck to it.  

I'd like clock-ins with it; they leave a section of the market on the table without clock-ins in the Calendar functions.

But, that said, I do like being able to cross-pollinate between the to do list app and calendar.  That feature really comes in handy, and is available in the free version, the scheduling with a date/time element.

That said, Project Management can be done on Google Sheets, so one doesn't need a fancy app for that.

Clock-ins can be managed and tabulated manually in Calendar, by an admin.

At a prior employment, I had a clock-in app, and it was an oddball thing that didn't always register my location correctly.  It was such that, on days at a branch office, the app located me in the middle of a nearby intersection, presumably a prior ping that didn't update as I entered the physical location of the office.

It was such that it was:

Employer

District Manager

Branch Manager

The Branch biggie knew I was there, had been forewarned of me coming, and registered my timely arrival.  The District Manager micromanaged, checking the app and all that at my arrival time, then messaging that I was not there yet, contesting the matter, even though they had the Branch Manager on the phone.

All would have been fine, and the system would have held without the District Manager's extra scrutiny creating unnecessary questions.  And then there was lost productivity as the team prepared a log-in on a terminal physically in the office, some half an hour, and then to boot, a late log-in on that, from me, when I was already previously in the office early.

The key was that the Employer and the DM got to log-in on that at will, and they didn't want to pay for Workspace, and they just forwarded the app log to tabulate hours: so they knocked out four birds, but with two or three stones.