Transparent employee monitoring your team can understand
See working hours, app use and activity trends without hiding what is collected.
Worktivity records activity only while a shift is running, and the list of what it records is short and public. Your organization can narrow it further, by blurring or switching off screenshots, dropping website addresses or changing settings for one person. It cannot extend it.
What monitoring covers, and what it does not
The questions employees and managers ask most.
What is recorded each minute?
The status (working, on a break or idle), how many of the sixty seconds had keyboard or mouse input, the application in front, the website host if it is a browser, the number of displays and, if enabled, a screenshot.
What is never recorded?
Typed text, window titles, full web addresses, clipboard contents, files, the camera and the microphone. The fields do not exist in the data the app sends.
Can employees see their own data?
Everyone has My activities, with their own hours, activity and productivity split. Their own screenshots, timesheet and timelapse videos can be shown to them with separate switches.
Who can see an employee's records?
Owners, co-owners and the manager of that person's team. A manager's view is limited to their own team, and the limit is applied on the server.
Can the app run hidden?
Background mode hides the window on the Windows app from our website and on Mac. It changes what is shown, not what is collected. Rules on hidden monitoring differ by country, so Worktivity shows a warning before you turn it on.
What your team gets out of it
Nothing hidden in the list
Employees see what is collected before their first shift, and the same list is in the help center.
Settings that match your policy
Screenshots off, blurred or sharp, website addresses on or off, and overrides for one person.
Data that answers real questions
Who worked when, in which applications and how active the time was, without reading anyone's content.
How teams introduce it
The rollouts that go well start with the settings, not the invitations.
Choose the settings first
Decide on screenshots, blurring and website addresses before anyone installs the app.
Tell the team what is collected
The app shows the list at the first clock-in, but a short explanation from you lands better.
Look at trends, not minutes
Team-level reports answer most questions. Individual detail is there when something needs checking.
What it does not do
The boundaries are part of the product, not fine print.
It does not read content
No keystrokes, window titles, message text or full web addresses.
It does not record outside the shift
Nothing is collected before clock-in or after clock-out.
It does not judge people
Idle time and productivity labels describe minutes. A meeting, a phone call and a day spent on paper all look the same to it.
Teams that get the most out of it
Organizations that need activity records and want to be open about them.
Outsourcing and BPO
Activity and idle time per client team.
Customer support
Shift, break and idle patterns for agents.
Software companies
Application usage per team, with screenshots off or blurred.
Financial services
Blurred screenshots where screens show customer data.
Agencies
Evidence of the work behind a client project when the client asks.
Remote-first companies
Hours and activity for people who never share an office.
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Work, break and idle time recorded by the desktop app while the shift runs.
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Pay rates, billable amounts, payroll and customer invoices from tracked time.
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Leave requests, balances, approvals and carry-over in the same tool as your hours.
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Start with transparent workforce data
Choose your settings, invite the team and show them the list of what is collected. The trial runs for 14 days.
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