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DeskTime

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8 Reviews and Ratings

What is DeskTime?

DeskTime is an automatic time tracking software that tracks and analyzes employee productivity, and is a project from DeskTime.com of the Draugiem Group of companies and tech startups in Latvia.

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Pros

  • Tracks productivity
  • Takes screenshots of activity
  • Ranks users based on performance
  • Can create and manage many teams
  • Can see all hours worked, arrivals and departures
  • Can dictate which websites are productive and unproductive

Cons

  • The ability to change or modify private time by management account
  • Inability for a user to turn off desktime
  • More detailed tracking of internet based activities

Most Important Features

  • Ease of installation and implementation
  • Reliability for time tracking
  • Production tracking with screenshots

Return on Investment

  • It makes us feel like our employees are more honest about their work
  • We feel that we able to more fairly assess our employees capabilities
  • Ensures us that our remote team is doing the work we pay for with little to no supervision
  • Accountability of time spent

Other Software Used

Litify, ADP Workforce Now, RingDNA

DeskTime for all your time management needs!

Pros

  • Personal time management
  • Customer Service
  • Easy to use UI

Cons

  • Potential to over-monitor employee time usage
  • No task tracking feature
  • Realization of own poor time management

Most Important Features

  • URL tracking
  • Absence Calendar
  • Offline/Online tracking

Return on Investment

  • Increased awareness of own time management
  • Better understanding of ticket time predictions vs reality
  • Easier observation of team's out of office status

Alternatives Considered

RescueTime, Time Doctor, Hubstaff and Clockify

Other Software Used

Clockify, Time Doctor, Hubstaff

Great time tracking app for organization - easy to setup, detailed reporting dashboard

Pros

  • Time Tracking - Just open the app and forget it
  • Dashboard Report - Detailed, easy to export

Cons

  • App resources usage - it's lagging sometimes

Most Important Features

  • Reporting Dashboard

Return on Investment

  • Good Investment, with the report you can decide which other paid apps [are] not being used in the organization

Alternatives Considered

Time Doctor

Other Software Used

Notion, Slack, TickTick, Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Skype, Zendesk Chat (formerly Zopim), Zendesk Talk, Crazy Egg