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Timesheet reconciliation. To prevent payroll errors and excess labor costs.

Move beyond trust-based tracking to automated timesheet validation. ActivTrak compares employee-reported hours to actual work activity data, helping you catch discrepancies and recover excess payroll costs.

Workforce analytics dashboard sho wing financial impact of over-reported hours, trend analysis, severity distribution, and recurring reporting patterns.

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TIMESHEET RECONCILIATION

Accurate, automated timesheet validation and anomaly detection

Eliminate hours of manual review each pay period to ensure accuracy, prevent fraud and stay audit-ready — all while preventing millions in annual overpayments.

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PAYROLL COST RECOVERY

Identify timesheet errors before payroll runs

  • See the exact dollar impact of over-reported hours each month
  • Avoid overpayments and the awkward process of reclaiming funds
  • Distinguish between isolated errors and systemic issues that require policy changes
Table showing the financial impact of over-reported work hours by department, including users affected, reported hours, and total cost.

COMPLIANCE AUDITING

Prevent timesheet overbilling with concrete data

  • Verify employee-reported hours using objective productivity data
  • Distinguish honest mistakes from intentional misreporting
  • Spot repeat offenders who regularly over-report hours
Table showing users with recurring over-reported hours grouped by consecutive months and the resulting cost impact.

OVER-REPORTING TRENDS

Track inflated timesheet patterns

  • Spot recurring trends tied to busy periods, project deadlines or billing cycles that may require interventions
  • Track whether coaching conversations, policy changes or training initiatives improve accuracy over time
  • Let HR and finance know when it’s time to investigate an unusually high number of inflated timesheets
Chart showing the monthly trend of over-reported hours cost and percentage of users with over-reported time from August to December 2025.

OVER-REPORTING SEVERITY

Decide how and when to respond

  • Quickly identify when over-reported hours create financial risk and require immediate action
  • Separate minor inconsistencies from significant violations to right-size investigations
  • Apply appropriate interventions based on severity, from automated reminders to formal reviews
Table showing the distribution of users by over-reporting rate thresholds and the associated cost of excess reported hours.

What are ActivTrak’s key features?

ActivTrak is the most comprehensive workforce analytics solution, with robust features to address your employee monitoring, productivity management and workforce planning needs. Make data-driven decisions to quickly optimize performance and boost productivity.

Workforce Management

Remote Workforce Management

Remote Workforce Management

Track employee productivity by work location to guide workplace policy decisions.

An ActivTrak dashboard showing employee productivity by location.
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Employee Monitoring

Employee Monitoring

Get real-time visibility into team activity and productivity levels.

An ActivTrak dashboard showing real-time employee activity including who’s out of office, who was late to work and who is highly productive.
Explore employee monitoring

Timesheet Reconciliation

Timesheet Reconciliation

Automatically verify reported hours against actual work activity to catch errors and prevent overpayments.

An ActivTrak dashboard shows automated employee time tracking.
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Schedule & Policy Adherence

Schedule & Policy Adherence

Monitor late starts, early departures and extended breaks in real time.

An ActivTrak report shows which employees are on time and who arrive late or left early.
Explore schedule & policy adherence

Contractor Billing Reconciliation

Contractor Billing Reconciliation

Confirm contractor hours billed match hours worked.

The ActivTrak billing reconciliation dashboard shows how much an organization may be overpaying for inaccurate invoices.
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Productivity Optimization

Productivity Management

Productivity Management

Make data-driven decisions to fuel productivity across teams and individuals.

A team productivity chart for three people: Suzanne R (73% productive), Juan S. (65% productive) and Velma D. (84% productive). Time slots from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. indicate levels of inactivity, productivity and un-productivity.
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Performance Optimization & Coaching

Performance Optimization & Coaching

Leverage AI-powered insights to understand and optimize team performance.

A productivity coaching dashboard showing user statuses: improving, recurring decline and new decline. Four categories track low efficiency, high passive time, high utilization and low focus, listing names with colored progress bars.
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Employee Engagement & Burnout

Employee Engagement & Burnout

Assess employee utilization to detect burnout and balance workloads.

An ActivTrak workload balance report shows which employees have too much, not enough or just the right amount of work.
Explore employee engagement & burnout

Workforce Planning

Workforce Optimization & Cost Savings

Workforce Optimization & Cost Savings

Uncover hidden inefficiencies to cut costs and boost profitability.

An ActivTrak report shows how much capacity team members have, and how many are overutilized or underutilized.
Explore workforce optimization

Capacity & Headcount Planning

Capacity & Headcount Planning

Analyze workload capacity to allocate resources and identify staffing needs.

An ActivTrak dashboard shows which employees are over or under capacity.
Explore capacity & headcount planning

Technology Optimization

Technology Optimization

Track technology usage to identify unused licenses and cut unnecessary costs.

An ActivTrak dashboard displays how much an organization is paying for unused software licenses.
Explore technology optimization

Office Space Planning

Office Space Planning

Right-size real estate investments with insight into office space utilization.

An ActivTrak dashboard shows how much office space is used and how much an organization could save by eliminating unused space.
Explore office space planning

Remote Workforce Management

Track employee productivity by work location to guide workplace policy decisions.

An ActivTrak dashboard showing employee productivity by location.
Explore workforce management

Employee Monitoring

Get real-time visibility into team activity and productivity levels.

An ActivTrak dashboard showing real-time employee activity including who’s out of office, who was late to work and who is highly productive.
Explore employee monitoring

Timesheet Reconciliation

Automatically verify reported hours against actual work activity to catch errors and prevent overpayments.

An ActivTrak dashboard shows automated employee time tracking.
Explore Timesheet Reconciliation

Schedule & Policy Adherence

Monitor late starts, early departures and extended breaks in real time.

An ActivTrak report shows which employees are on time and who arrive late or left early.
Explore schedule & policy adherence

Contractor Billing Reconciliation

Confirm contractor hours billed match hours worked.

The ActivTrak billing reconciliation dashboard shows how much an organization may be overpaying for inaccurate invoices.
Explore billing reconciliation

Productivity Management

Make data-driven decisions to fuel productivity across teams and individuals.

A team productivity chart for three people: Suzanne R (73% productive), Juan S. (65% productive) and Velma D. (84% productive). Time slots from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. indicate levels of inactivity, productivity and un-productivity.
Explore productivity management

Performance Optimization & Coaching

Leverage AI-powered insights to understand and optimize team performance.

A productivity coaching dashboard showing user statuses: improving, recurring decline and new decline. Four categories track low efficiency, high passive time, high utilization and low focus, listing names with colored progress bars.
Explore performance optimization & coaching

Employee Engagement & Burnout

Assess employee utilization to detect burnout and balance workloads.

An ActivTrak workload balance report shows which employees have too much, not enough or just the right amount of work.
Explore employee engagement & burnout

Workforce Optimization & Cost Savings

Uncover hidden inefficiencies to cut costs and boost profitability.

An ActivTrak report shows how much capacity team members have, and how many are overutilized or underutilized.
Explore workforce optimization

Capacity & Headcount Planning

Analyze workload capacity to allocate resources and identify staffing needs.

An ActivTrak dashboard shows which employees are over or under capacity.
Explore capacity & headcount planning

Technology Optimization

Track technology usage to identify unused licenses and cut unnecessary costs.

An ActivTrak dashboard displays how much an organization is paying for unused software licenses.
Explore technology optimization

Office Space Planning

Right-size real estate investments with insight into office space utilization.

An ActivTrak dashboard shows how much office space is used and how much an organization could save by eliminating unused space.
Explore office space planning

ActivTrak fits your stack

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How it works

Capture employee activity

Capture employee activity including hours worked, schedule adherence, location policy compliance and app & website usage.

Analyze productivity trends

Analyze productivity trends on employee focus, engagement and utilization to make data-informed decisions on resource allocation.

Optimize team performance

Optimize team performance with benchmarks, goal-tracking and AI coaching recommendations to improve workforce productivity.

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