Employee Monitoring Software

Employee Monitoring

What is Employee Monitoring Software?

Employee Monitoring software enables companies to monitor and supervise all employees regardless of their location. The software collects data on a employee's web and application usage enabling the tracking of activity, time and productivity of all remote employees from a central location.

Common Features

  • Timesheet
  • Application and URL Monitoring
  • Document and File Tracking
  • Screenshots
  • Task Tracking
  • Productivity Analysis
  • Keystroke Recording
  • Domain Blocking
  • Email Monitoring
  • Location Tracking
  • Alerts
  • Dashboards and Reporting

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Top Employee Monitoring Software 2024

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Time Doctor

Time Doctor

Composite Score
9.0 /10
CX Score
9.3 /10

Employee-friendly time tracking and productivity insights that enable teams to do their best work.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Caring
  • Saves Time
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Hubstaff

Hubstaff

Composite Score
8.3 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

Hubstaff helps businesses reach new levels of productivity through better team, project, and time management. Hubstaff (hubstaff.com) time tracking software is used by over 10,000 teams across the world that want to achieve more. Track work hours, pay team members, invoice clients, see in-depth reporting, and more through our web dashboard, desktop, and mobile apps.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Reliable
  • Inspires Innovation
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DeskTime

DeskTime

Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.4 /10

DeskTime is a desktop and mobile time tracking app or teams and freelancers with powerful features for productivity measurement, attendance tracking, and effective workflow management. DeskTime helps to organize and be more aware of how your team is performing on an everyday basis with simple time tracking software. Plan and create shifts, manage absences, track your staff's productivity, use the Project tracking feature to see who is working on what and for how long, and so much more.

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Pros

  • Saves Time
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Friendly Negotiation
  • Helps Innovate
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Composite Score
8.1 /10
CX Score
8.3 /10

Insightful Employee Monitoring (formerly Workpuls) delivers productivity-boosting workforce analytics that are incredibly flexible, easy-to-use and built to scale with your big ambitions. Employee tracking software that tells you exactly how your employees use their time. Get powerful data for a more productive and efficient team.

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Pros

  • Caring
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Unique Features
  • Fair
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ActivTrak

ActivTrak

Composite Score
7.7 /10
CX Score
7.9 /10

ActivTrak’s workforce intelligence platform transforms work activity data into actionable insights to optimize performance management and boost business productivity. Unlike traditional employee monitoring tools, ActivTrak is the only complete solution with employee monitoring, productivity and performance management, and workforce planning capabilities that deliver measurable ROI in just weeks. Key differentiators include: enterprise-class scale to accelerate time-to-value, employee-centric approach to ensure data privacy, AI-powered insights to help prioritize actions and best-in-class expertise to optimize outcomes.

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Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Efficient Service
  • Client Friendly Policies
  • Reliable
Sapience Analytics Corp

Sapience Vue

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

What does your data say about your business? With Sapience Vue™, no need to assume that work is getting done. Easily integrate the Vue platform into your existing environment to extract work effort data from anywhere, anytime to help understand productivity and execute data-driven decisions for a more productive workforce.

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Acts with Integrity
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

One program for full staff monitoring in the workspace. A complete report of the team's activities, work time, Internet usage and more is always at your fingertips. Compatible with Windows OS from XP and above and Mac OS from 10.12 and above. Clever Control aims at collecting all-encompassing reports about the daily work routine of your team. Analysis of this information lets you look into the usual workflow in the office, detect successful and ineffective patterns and find ways to improve them.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Charges for Enhancements
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

Traqq is a time tracking solution that helps businesses and organizations monitor and analyze internal company processes. Your team will get better organized, enjoy higher transparency and improved work efficiency. You get a time tracking app with easy billing and reporting options for employees, which also comes with innovative administration tools to simplify monitoring, analytics, and payroll handling for employers, and includes tough privacy protection and security mechanisms ensuring a smooth and worry-free experience for everyone.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
Monitask

Monitask

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Online time-tracking and screenshot monitoring software as a service (SaaS) startup company. Free screenshot monitoring and time tracking software for companies, teams, and freelancers. Easy-to-use time-tracking software designed for remote teams of employees that includes automatic timesheets and screenshots of employees’ workstations as proof of work done. Screenshot monitoring is completely transparent to the employees and they control when the monitoring starts and when it stops.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
NesterSoft Inc.

WorkTime

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

WorkTime is an employee, computer, and Internet monitoring software system designed for businesses (companies, employers, human resources) to monitor productivity level. WorkTime is the only unique non-invasive, pure productivity monitoring software on the market.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing