TomTom Work, the division of TomTom dedicated to commercial vehicle fleets, has announced the launch of two devices to help businesses with their time management and logging obligations.

The ‘Remote Link Working Time’ device enables businesses to track the hours of every employee who is working away from the office while the ‘Remote Link Logbook’ keeps an accurate record of mileage clocked up on a company vehicle whether it be work-related or personal usage.

“The TomTom Link system makes it easy for fleet managers to track and trace their company vehicles,” explained Thomas Schmidt, managing director TomTom Work. “By adding these new Remote Link devices, managers can gather valuable data about their employees’ working hours and mileage – data they can use to boost productivity, increase efficiency and save money.”

Designed as an easy-to-use remote control, it enables each employee to identify themselves and record their working status by ‘clicking’ their ID key on the remote.

This information is sent automatically back to the office through the TomTom Link. Using TomTom’s web-based reporting tool, managers can run reports on when employees started, paused and stopped work.

Simply by clicking a button at the start of each journey, employees can register it as a commute, a personal trip or a work-related journey.

Individual and group mileage can be monitored by day, week, month or year, and all data can be integrated with payroll and billing systems for smarter, faster calculations and payments.

The Remote Link Working Time and Remote Link Logbook will be launched during the second quarter of 2010. The recommended price is £69 for each device and £35 for ten ID keys to use with the Working Time device.