Time Doctor also sends detailed reports of websites that an employee visits during the time they log in, making employees more accountable to review their own productive time. While an idle time feature is available on Hubstaff too, configuring it is a tad more complicated. So you can’t trick the system, telling you were working while you were actually playing video games. Prolonged idle time and the employee is automatically put on a “ break.” With Time Doctor, a manager can specify how long his employee can go without a keystroke or mouse movement.Ī pop-up appears asking what the employee is up to. Time Doctor also blows the activity levels feature of Hubstaff out of the water. The manager can then view detailed analytics by extracting reports, like the one above, to see what task the employee was working on and for which team. You can now start your work, and the app tracks what websites you visit and what apps you were using in this period. So the onus is on the user to set tasks for the day, and then a handy little bar appears on your screen, showing time being tracked. The interface is really user-friendly, and you can figure it out in a few minutes. Managers have an option of creating tasks that can be assigned to employees, so all they have to do is click the little play button. Time Doctor will log how many minutes or hours you have spent on a particular task. Click on the play button to start and stop recording time.You’ll see a start and stop timer next to your task.
#TIME DOCTOR REVIEWS HOW TO#
Similar to Hubstaff, you have to download the desktop app.Īfter downloading Time Doctor, here’s how to track time: Time Doctor uses a whole different way of approaching this problem and gives users a lot more freedom to track time while they’re working. Hubstaff clarifies that the activity levels should only be used as “trends” to see if you can make minor corrections as and when needed. You get time reports for all your activities and the percentage of time that you actually spend on various tasks to help with time management.Īs handy as it’s, activity levels can’t accurately tell if one employee was working harder than another.įor example, if you have a developer on your team who spends more time coding, then they will have a higher keyboard usage, and in turn, a higher activity level than, say, a content writer who spends more time reading and researching.ĭoes this mean the writer was working less? So my activity level is 80% since I’m using 80 seconds of the 100 seconds using the keyboard or mouse. 20 seconds of brushing my hair out of my eye and staring into space (no mouse or keyboard used).20 seconds browsing images to use in the post.30 seconds researching on the post that I’m writing.Here’s how 100 seconds at my workplace typically looks like: It then generates reports for set time intervals. Hubstaff detects if there is movement in your keyboard or mouse and tags these minutes as active and the rest of it as inactive. Now coming to the real deal: the activity levels and how they track your productivity. This helps you see which tasks are taking more time and can be improved. You can also select projects, where instead of individual members, the time spent on each project is displayed. A bar graph showing how many hours they worked that week.įrom here, you can also view timesheets - to see how much an employee has worked on a particular project, as well as their activity levels.If you select the “ Team” dashboard, you’ll see the same information but for the entire team. The total hours worked for the week, including an activity percentage.Here’s the information you’ll see if you select the “ Me” dashboard: Hubstaff has to be first installed on a user’s home computer or laptop on which they’re working.Īfter logging in, you are presented with two options: “ Me” or “ Team.”
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