Employee monitoring built for Architecture Firms

Monitoring only earns its place when it answers a question the business already has. For architecture practices that question is usually the same one: are architects, technologists and project leads spending their hours on the work that moves design phases, revision rounds and site visits forward, or on everything that surrounds it?

Architectural fees are agreed per phase, but the work refuses to stay inside those phases. A client comment during construction documents can reopen design development, and unless someone is recording where hours actually went, that scope creep gets absorbed rather than billed.

Architecture practices tend to run on goodwill: unrecorded evening hours, absorbed revisions and a general culture of doing whatever the project needs. That goodwill is real, and it is also why practices are so regularly surprised by their own margins.

Worktivity's employee monitoring for architecture practices tracks time against the phase structure fees are built on: concept, schematic, design development, construction documents, tender and administration. Hours in CAD and BIM sit next to hours in email and coordination, which is usually the first time a practice sees the true ratio between drawing and everything else.

Worktivity's role here is documentary rather than supervisory. Recording where hours actually went across CAD, coordination, correspondence and meetings turns the practice's invisible generosity into a number principals can act on, whether by repricing, by resourcing differently, or by finally charging for additional services.

Worktivity answers it with automatic activity capture, application and website usage, optional screenshots and activity levels, all assembled into a timeline a manager can read in a minute and an employee can check for themselves. No keystroke logging, no hidden agent, no surprises.