Employee monitoring built for Consulting Firms

Monitoring only earns its place when it answers a question the business already has. For consulting firms that question is usually the same one: are consultants, analysts and engagement managers spending their hours on the work that moves engagements, workstreams and deliverables forward, or on everything that surrounds it?

Utilisation is the number consulting firms live by, and it is usually calculated from timesheets that consultants complete under deadline pressure at the end of the week. The result is a metric precise to two decimal places and built on approximations.

Consultants are the group most likely to read monitoring as a statement about trust, and the group whose working week is hardest to reconstruct afterwards. Client sites, travel, research and modelling blur together, and by Friday the honest answer to where Tuesday went is an estimate dressed as a record.

Worktivity's employee monitoring for consulting firms replaces the approximation. Hours land against engagement and workstream as work happens, so utilisation, realisation and leverage are computed from a record rather than a recollection, and a partner can see mid-engagement whether the pyramid is holding.

The firms that deploy this successfully frame it as an alternative to the Friday timesheet rather than an addition to it. Activity is captured against engagements automatically, consultants review and correct their own record before it is submitted, and personal time is excluded outright. What partners gain is not oversight of individuals but a utilisation figure that survives an argument.

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.