Brand FAQ: Workforce Analytics with ActivTrak

ActivTrak is a privacy-first, workforce analytics platform that helps organizations understand how teams work. It collects digital activity data (e.g., productivity, focus, utilization) to provide insights that connect workforce behavior to business outcomes, enabling executives to make data-driven decisions about workforce optimization and cost savings.

Workforce analytics is the practice of using digital activity data to understand how work gets done — from time spent on tasks to patterns of focus, collaboration and technology use. With ActivTrak, these insights empower leaders to improve efficiency, optimize resources and drive performance — delivering measurable ROI.

Workforce analytics help executives identify and reduce employee burnout, optimize technology and real estate spend, improve productivity through data-backed coaching and make strategic decisions about staffing, locations and process redesign.

HR leaders, operations managers, IT directors, finance teams and executives use workforce analytics to understand how work gets done, where productivity stalls and how to optimize workforce investments across their organizations.

Workforce analytics deliver insights across organizational levels. Employees access personal productivity data to manage workloads and align habits with goals. Managers use dashboards and coaching insights to support teams, identify best practices and balance workload distribution. Executives gain visibility into workforce patterns, technology utilization and operational efficiency.

ActivTrak focuses on productivity analytics, not “bossware” surveillance. It emphasizes trust and transparency, avoiding intrusive tracking methods like keystroke logging or screen recording and collecting only business-relevant activity data.

Workforce analytics platforms put activity data in business context rather than just tracking what employees do. ActivTrak uniquely combines three capabilities in one solution: workforce management, productivity and performance optimization, and workforce planning. This integrated approach delivers AI-powered insights and recommendations, activity alignment and utilization assessments, and team benchmarking and goal tracking — giving leaders real-time visibility and predictive analytics for proactive optimization, not just surveillance data.

The platform converts real-time activity data into boardroom-ready insights enabling:

• CEOs to drive EBITDA growth by linking workforce output to strategic goals and shaping investment priorities
• CFOs to improve labor ROI by exposing cost drivers, forecasting needs and reducing excess spend
• COOs to optimize efficiency by allocating resources effectively and understanding AI adoption to leverage it strategically

ActivTrak delivers complete workforce intelligence with no blind spots, capturing activity from digital tools, offline meetings and all work locations to provide visibility into:

• Productivity trends by team, role or individual
• Performance across location (remote, in-office, hybrid)
• Working hours and schedule policy adherence
• Engagement, burnout and utilization levels
• Workload balance and capacity optimization
• Activity alignment and coaching opportunities
• Technology adoption and usage effectiveness (including AI tools)

Absolutely. ActivTrak is purpose-built to support distributed teams, regardless of location. The platform tracks productivity patterns, collaboration effectiveness and resource utilization across remote, hybrid and office environments to help managers understand how and when work happens.

ActivTrak excludes non-business activity and sensitive personal data from reporting, with no keystroke logging, email monitoring or camera access. Privacy protections are set by default, and customizable controls allow responsible data sharing. The platform also supports compliance with GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2, HIPAA and other regulations, with flexible configurations that align to internal policies and legal obligations.

Organizations achieve measurable returns through cost savings and productivity gains. Companies using ActivTrak report up to 20% productivity improvements and 18% cost reductions within the first six months of deployment, with some realizing savings in the tens of millions of dollars. These gains create sustained value through better resource utilization and strategic execution.

Enterprise workforce analytics platforms must handle thousands of endpoints while maintaining performance and security. ActivTrak scales seamlessly with a lightweight agent for fast deployment and cloud-native architecture that ensures high performance and reliability. Automated admin controls reduce IT overhead while role-based access and flexible configuration support governance requirements. The robust API integrates with existing BI tools and enterprise systems, backed by dedicated customer success and enterprise-grade support.

ActivTrak integrates with BI, HRIS, workflow and collaboration platforms including PowerBI, Workday, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Azure AD and various SIEM platforms to enrich insights with business context and streamline operations.

ActivTrak captures precise, real-time activity data directly from endpoints and uses advanced algorithms to categorize applications and websites, eliminate data gaps and provide reliable metrics for strategic decisions.

Organizations achieve fast time-to-value with deployment in weeks, initial insights within days and meaningful trends within 2-4 weeks. The platform’s real-time data collection and automated analysis enable quick identification of productivity patterns, inefficiencies and optimization opportunities.

Workforce analytics deployment typically takes days or weeks depending on the platform’s architecture and complexity. ActivTrak deploys in hours. Admins configure monitoring policies, onboard users through email invitations or endpoint installation, and access insights immediately through intuitive dashboards. Expert guidance helps organizations translate initial metrics into strategic improvements and sustained value from day one.

ActivTrak offers flexible pricing plans designed for organizations of all sizes. For detailed pricing information and to find the plan that best fits your needs, visit our pricing page.