Managing Remote Employees
Updated June 06, 2025
Managing Remote Employees

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with ActivTrak
We use ActivTrak as a crucial tool for enhancing operational efficiency and maintaining productivity oversight across remote and in-office teams. ActivTrak helps us identify work patterns, monitor application usage, and detect potential bottlenecks in real-time. Its reporting capabilities provide insights into active hours, focus time, and collaboration metrics, enabling managers to coach team members more effectively.
The primary business problem ActivTrak addresses is the lack of visibility into how time is spent during the workday—especially in a hybrid work environment. It helps us ensure that productivity remains high while also supporting employee wellness by identifying signs of burnout or excessive after-hours work.
Our use case is focused on analytics rather than surveillance. We analyze trends over time, set benchmarks, and use goal-based productivity metrics to support performance reviews and team optimization strategies. The platform’s scope includes departmental monitoring, workflow diagnostics, and the development of healthier work habits across teams.
The primary business problem ActivTrak addresses is the lack of visibility into how time is spent during the workday—especially in a hybrid work environment. It helps us ensure that productivity remains high while also supporting employee wellness by identifying signs of burnout or excessive after-hours work.
Our use case is focused on analytics rather than surveillance. We analyze trends over time, set benchmarks, and use goal-based productivity metrics to support performance reviews and team optimization strategies. The platform’s scope includes departmental monitoring, workflow diagnostics, and the development of healthier work habits across teams.
Pros
- Track
- Audit
- Summarize
Cons
- Data Visualization Limitations
- Role-Based Access
- Privacy Configuration
- ActivTrak has delivered measurable ROI by enhancing visibility into employee productivity, leading to more informed managerial decisions and better resource allocation.
- ActivTrak can create initial resistance among employees who perceive it as intrusive, which requires careful onboarding and communication to mitigate.
- Productivity Reports & Dashboards - The visual dashboards and reports give a clear, quantifiable view of productive vs. unproductive time, focus hours, collaboration time, and break patterns.
- Real-Time Monitoring - Custom alerts and real-time activity views offer a powerful way to respond to immediate issues such as non-compliance, system misuse, or unexpected dips in activity.
ActivTrak has significantly enhanced our ability to measure and improve workforce productivity by providing real-time and historical insights into how time is spent across the organization. Before adopting ActivTrak, we lacked visibility into daily workflow patterns, focus time, and engagement across remote and in-office teams. This lack of data made it difficult to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, or workload imbalances.
ActivTrak’s data has become a vital tool in our organization for balancing workloads effectively across in-office, hybrid, and remote teams. It provides visibility into how time and effort are distributed, enabling us to spot early warning signs of burnout by reviewing excessive daily or weekly hours and take proactive action to support employee well-being.
ActivTrak has played a key role in helping our organization streamline process workflows and maximize the efficient use of both human and technological resources. With its comprehensive activity monitoring and behavior analytics, we've been able to uncover operational inefficiencies, optimize tool usage, and align team efforts more closely with business priorities.
We chose ActivTrak because it struck the right balance between powerful productivity analytics and user-friendly, ethical monitoring. It was more insightful than basic time trackers, but less invasive than surveillance-heavy tools. Its focus on focus time, workload balance, and coaching enablement aligned closely with our goals around performance, wellness, and operational efficiency.
Do you think ActivTrak delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with ActivTrak's feature set?
Yes
Did ActivTrak live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of ActivTrak go as expected?
I wasn't involved with the implementation phase
Would you buy ActivTrak again?
Yes

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