Employee Monitoring Software

Employee monitoring software is a technology employed by businesses to gather user activity data and analyze that data to answer the who, where, what, and how questions about the work their employees do.

Employee monitoring software is used to monitor employee digital activity for a variety of reasons: for visibility into employee work time, understand what apps and websites are used, or ensure internal policy or data compliance. Recently, modern employee monitoring tools have shown greater potential for providing comprehensive workforce analytics and uncovering employee productivity coaching opportunities. These modern tools help businesses improve employee performance, boost employee engagement, and reduce resource inefficiencies. By monitoring and analyzing employee work patterns, organizations can increase workforce productivity and become more profitable.

Employee productivity and workforce activity data gathered by this method can be analyzed to find trends, patterns, and correlations across teams, groups, and departments to gain insight into business processes and how to improve them. This activity data includes application usage, time spent on productive and unproductive tasks, and what time periods each employee is most productive. Employee monitoring software gives companies an overall picture of how work is done in and out of the office, putting workforce activity data in context and providing insights for employers and employees alike to boost personal, team, and organization productivity.

Employee monitoring software allows companies to see the root cause of costly distractions, rebalance workloads, identify opportunities for improvement and more.
According to businessnewsdaily.com, American businesses lose $650 billion per year from distracted employees. Distraction can come from frequent context switching, unproductive processes, unnecessary intrusions, or a lack of focus. Successful, data-driven companies use the insights and analytics that employee monitoring software gives them to increase productivity and efficiency; boost sales and revenue; and strengthen employee satisfaction and retention.

Remote employee monitoring is conducted through software on a users’ computer. User activity is gathered and sent to a database where administrators can see individual activity and analyze it for further understanding around productivity, collaboration, engagement, policy control, workload balance, and other critical metrics.

Remote employee monitoring solutions, like ActivTrak, collects and analyzes remote worker user activity to help businesses get the visibility they need. Critical data around time management, website and technology usage, and active or passive time and understanding how those data relate to productivity is key to understanding the success or failures of your remote teams.

Improving productivity requires the collection and monitoring of data to establish a baseline upon which you can measure improvement. We know employee monitoring and activity analysis have a mixed history and association with surveillance and heavy oversight. ActivTrak intends to change that by focusing on the real output of employee monitoring: improved productivity.

We designed ActivTrak from an ethical standpoint: with the guiding principles of transparency, collaboration and informed insight. We’ve intentionally developed a powerful platform that focuses on the collection of contextual data, avoiding intrusive employee monitoring technologies like keystroke logging and video surveillance.

We challenge the users of our product to join us on our journey to move employee monitoring from the age of oversight and into the results and data-driven space that is productivity insights and optimization of work.