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• Hubstaff Time

  Simplify work tracking and boost your efficiency with Hubstaff Time. Hubstaff Time streamlines time tracking, timesheets, and payments so you and your team can get more done in less time.

• Hubstaff Desk

  Simplify work tracking and boost your efficiency with Hubstaff Time. Hubstaff Time streamlines time tracking, timesheets, and payments so you and your team can get more done in less time.

• Hubstaff Field

  Hubstaff Field is for mobile teams in industries like construction, architecture, landscaping, and health care. See where your team members are and the work that they’re doing. With Hubstaff’s geofenced Job sites that automate time tracking, timesheets and payroll have never been more accurate.

Tracking time is incredibly easy with Hubstaff. After setting up your organization and its projects, team members can use Hubstaff’s desktop, web, or mobile apps to track their time. You can also create to-dos within projects for more precise tracking.

Once you start tracking time to a task, Hubstaff will quietly run in the background as you work, consuming virtually no resources. You can easily switch between tasks or stop tracking with just a few clicks. When Hubstaff isn’t tracking time, no other data is being recorded. The goal is only to track work done on a device, not to watch someone at all times.

Hubstaff detects input from your keyboard and mouse to measure your activity over ten-minute periods (600 seconds). For example, if you typed on your keyboard and moved your mouse for 300 total seconds while the timer was running, that would equal an activity rate of 50%.

Take note that Hubstaff does not record your keystrokes. The app only checks if there is keyboard or mouse activity or if there isn’t.

In order to cut down on inaccurate timesheets, Hubstaff can prompt a notification when a user goes idle (no mouse or keyboard activity). Idle intervals can be set to notify after 5, 10, 20 minutes, or never. After those periods, your team members can choose to keep tracking time or stop the timer and keep or delete the idle time.

Hubstaff can take screenshots once, twice, or three times per ten minutes, but we do not record video of your computer display while you are working.

Hubstaff offers the option to blur your team members’ screenshots, allowing you to track their progress without risking access to sensitive information.

This is another proof of work feature that can be customized or turned off if you choose.

o, and we never will. Hubstaff is a productivity tool, not surveillance software. We will never record sounds from your microphone or videos of your screen or webcam.

Hubstaff’s mobile apps have built-in GPS capabilities that allow managers to track their team members’ locations. Similar to its proof of work features, this will only work while you’re tracking time or through fleet tracking. Hubstaff will stop uploading live data when you stop the timer and instead report your last recorded location. Your team will have to grant permissions on their device when they download the app, so they’ll know what’s being tracked.

Tracking your team’s efficiency can be a challenge, but we’ve equipped Hubstaff with several great features to help you determine how they perform.

For example, a video editor could have low activity rates over short but recurring periods of time throughout the day. However, the app usage report will show that they spent almost all of their time on video editing software. This would make sense as rendering videos takes time but involves no keyboard or mouse input.

Another example is a writer working on an extensive article. A low activity rate doesn’t immediately imply that they’re inefficient. Heavy research and web browsing typically precede writing, so be sure to review the websites they visited before making a conclusion.

Hubstaff works best when you have clear expectations for your team. It helps you determine each team member’s average productivity levels to identify improvements or declines in their performance over time. In other words, the more you use Hubstaff, the better the results you’ll get.