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How the activity percentage is calculated for each 10-minute block, what screenshots and app logging capture, and what your manager sees.
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Time trackers get blamed for seeing everything or seeing nothing. The truth sits in between, and it changes from tool to tool. These guides explain, in plain English, what each tracker actually records, how its activity and idle numbers are calculated, and what it can't see at all. Find your tracker below, or start with the overview.
Whatever the brand, if a monitoring agent is installed and running, it can see how long you were logged in, how much of that involved mouse and keyboard input, which applications and websites you had open and for how long, and when you went idle. The differences are in what each tool adds on top, and in a few things none of them can do.
The full reasoning is in What Time Trackers Can and Can't See.
How the activity percentage is calculated for each 10-minute block, what screenshots and app logging capture, and what your manager sees.
Read the Hubstaff guideWhat Time Doctor 2 tracks, and how its activity, screenshot and idle detection work.
Read the Time Doctor 2 guideHow ProHance measures activity and idle time, and what your manager sees.
Read the ProHance guideAlso: What is ProHance?
Productivity labels, screenshots, idle time and app usage in Insightful, formerly Workpuls.
Read the Insightful guideWhat ActivTrak records: activity, apps, websites and productivity labels.
Read the ActivTrak guideWhat DeskTime records and how its productivity and idle tracking work.
Read the DeskTime guideHow the Upwork Time Tracker logs activity and screenshots in your Work Diary, and what clients see.
Read the Upwork guideWhat TeamLogger tracks, how screenshots and idle time work, and how to ask for your own data.
Read the TeamLogger guideDoes WebWork track tabs and screenshots? What the WebWork time tracker records and what it doesn't.
Read the WebWork guideWhat Monitask records, how screenshots and activity levels work, and what your manager sees.
Read the Monitask guideWhat the Apploye time tracker records and what your manager sees.
Read the Apploye guideHow Screenshot Monitor and employee screenshot monitoring work in general, and who can see the captures.
Read the Screenshot Monitor guideTrackers see input and applications. They do not see work. An hour on a client call looks like near-total idle, an afternoon of careful reading looks like a long quiet stretch, and deep focus on one hard problem can look thinner than aimless clicking. Most disputes about monitoring data come down to that gap between what registered and what happened.
If your real work keeps landing in the invisible column, that's the specific problem LazyWork was built for.
Start with the one for the tracker your employer or client uses. If you are not sure which it is, read the overview above, then check your own dashboard.
Usually yes. Most trackers give you access to your own data, and some market it as a transparency feature. It is worth looking at least once, because it is normally less alarming than people assume and occasionally more.
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