ActivTrak

Great for Windows users that use Windows most of the time during work hours. Doesn't provide data on non-Windows devices

If considering, you need to be totally transparent in the organization so there are no surprises with employees - include them in the initiative and gain their buy in.

It really depends on what your department needs as far as tracking goes. The ability to get super detailed may not be for everyone, but ActivTrak does a great job at giving a large overview of how the company is doing in general. We do not utilize all the tools available, but for what we need, it does the job. I would recommend it.

ActivTrak has been the most reliable and accurate usage tracking tool that we have found. It is not intrusive nor visible to the end user and does not cause performance issues. The data visualizations enable fast evaluation of employee performance. The classification system is easy to use and is flexible enough to accommodate exceptions that need to be added for specific users. Reporting is detailed and can be trusted if needed to be used for legal support.

ActivTrak is a great tool for anyone looking for an easy to use software that will allow them to understand their team more intimately. We have used ActivTrak for termination decisions, for assessing burnout risk, and much more. This program is really easy to use and has all of the benefits you'd need from this type of product.

I actually only had a positive experience, meaning it did what we set out for it to do, solve our timing issue. Although I don’t love the way their site works, we were able to get the data we needed. We were able to show our employees where their time was going and how they can approve.

While not perfect (non of these products are) it does a good job of giving you a baseline for employee productivity so that managers can coach or praise as needed.

It is well suited to track employee use of their company computers and monitor their progress and productivity, especially in a remote environment.

For a team of remote working, this does identify different working methods and trends, especially when able to compare multiple users in a similar role it becomes extremely powerful to see where users can enhance performance and focus time/less time. This would be very difficult to establish even if the users are on-site with the manager. For more micro-management or specific scenarios, whereas, for a business, you need a close eye applying this as it is an extremely reliable and detailed tool that is such a good value for money.

It's an excellent tool for improving work efficiency. But it's not appropriate if you use it to spy on users.

ActivTrak has given us some great insight into how employees spend their working time when out of the office. We've been able to better track those employees close to burnout and those that are not using their work time to our standard of productivity.

ActivTrak was a perfect fit for us during the pandemic when everyone was remote - we could see when people were logging and could keep track of productivity. However, I don't think the coaching and insights are worth the extra cost.

ActivTrak gives a clear overview of how employees are spending their time.

Well suited where the work primarily heads down typing into the compute platforms - perhaps like BPO, application, gaming development industries Not so suited where there is significant collaboration on video calls (periods of a lull because of the conference), or testing involving embedded devices, etc.

Well suited for teams working in a remote or hybrid model to provide insights on how the team is working and to uncover common patterns within the team to identify collaborative hours in geographically diverse teams. Less appropriate for teams working in office model as this primarily captures screen hours as any robust algorithm still needs manual intervention to identify productive vs other hours effectively.

We like using ActivTrak to see where we need employee support; e.g., do we need to hire more people within a specific department.

For newer employees who may be struggling but afraid to ask for help, ActivTrak is great at finding those people. We can see where time is spent on certain activities versus peers and offer guidance early on

It's not well suited anywhere. It never worked for more than a few weeks before needing to be reinstalled. Contacting support is like pulling teeth.

ActivTrak is extraordinary with tracking representative teams and what they're doing. It would be nice to utilize it for worker surveys. The only downside I've found is when a representative goes to individual websites, the software creates some problems. Otherwise, I'm highly satisfied with the product.

We thought ActivTrak was great for our use case of temporarily monitoring the behavior of people during competitions. It could also be used in an academic setting to enable taking tests remotely on personal computers. We didn't really use the workforce monitoring functionalities so I can't speak to the value of those.

When there is a question of whether an employee misused or inappropriately shared company information, we rely on ActivTrak to show us the evidence. Disciplinary actions are based on what the system provides.

For our company, we use it for two main objectives. One, we check the productivity of the employees. Second, it has proven a useful tool in disciplinary issues. For example, management was questioning the need for a remote employee. Her manager raved about her performance and work. While doing a general review of top websites, we noticed a high usage of gambling sites. Another incident, we had an employee taking company information and sharing it with a competitor. HR was able to present specific emails and files during the investigation due to the screenprints from ActivTrak.

ActivTrak is well suited: Supervising Remote Users in different countries, identifying possible data theft to competitors when someone access data, saving it or exporting it measuring productivity and avoiding time loss, maximizing performances, go to historical data Less Appropriate: in EU countries where GDPR is strict, Data retention and management apply, might store sensitive data accidentally.

ActivTrak generally works well for me as a small business owner of a sales organization for monitoring employee activity. It also helps me know to whom I can direct work in real-time.

If you need to get a good holistic view of employee activity regardless of where they may be working, this is perfect.