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Productivity Management & Measurement
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Productivity measurement
See employee productivity in real time.
View and track employee productivity throughout the day as the work happens. See how ActivTrak’s key capabilities help you:
- Make data-driven decisions
- Extract key insights and trends
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Improve team performance
Improving productivity starts with collecting the right data — and putting it in context with other business metrics.
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ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW
Inform data-driven decisions
- Check progress toward daily productivity goals.
- Balance workloads throughout the organization.
- Compare current progress to past productivity trends.
Use ActivTrak as an employee performance tracker to understand patterns in work habits and team-level performance.
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PRODUCTIVITY REPORTS
Gain key employee productivity insights and trends
- Compare current and historical productivity data.
- Get detailed reports on top users, categories and apps.
- Track real-time productivity management metrics throughout the day.
These reports double as employee performance tracker reporting, helping leaders compare productivity trends across teams, roles and time periods.
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PRODUCTIVITY COACHING
Promote continuous improvement
One of the most important benefits of employee performance tracking is that the analytics allow managers to identify areas of improvement for each employee. These insights inform proactive next steps that:
- Help managers coach more effectively.
- Give employees more control over their professional development.
- Ensure cross-organizational alignment with automated email subscriptions.
BENCHMARKS & GOALS
Improve team performance and efficiency
- See historical benchmarks of productivity and focus time.
- Understand how each employee performs compared to goals.
- Use goals as guideposts to improve productivity and collaboration.
What you can do with ActivTrak
ActivTrak gives you the work intelligence to understand how work happens across people, tools and AI. Measure productivity, improve efficiency, and see how AI is changing workflows—so you can improve performance across your organization.
Executive Insights
Transform workforce data into boardroom-ready insights. See cross-team performance, identify hidden cost savings and make confident decisions that drive measurable business outcomes.
AI Insights
Understand how tools — and AI — are shaping work. See how applications and AI tools are used. Identify what’s driving value, where licenses are underused and how workflows are evolving.
Workforce Management
Understand how work happens across your organization. Analyze work patterns across teams, roles and tools to see where time goes, where friction exists and where performance can improve.
Productivity Optimization
Improve performance with data-driven insight. Quantify productivity, identify capacity and help teams work in more effective, sustainable ways.
Technology Usage & Compliance
Optimize technology investments and ensure compliance. Understand which applications and websites employees use to drive adoption or cut costs, and enforce policies aimed at mitigating risk.
Connect work intelligence across your tech stack
Integrate existing tools to combine workforce activity, AI usage and business data for deeper, more actionable insights.
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Microsoft Teams
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ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Microsoft Viva
Jira Software
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How It Works
Capture behavioral activity
Capture behavioral activity including hours worked, schedule adherence, location policy compliance and app & website usage.
Analyze productivity trends
Analyze productivity trends on employee focus, engagement and utilization to make data-informed decisions on resource allocation.
Optimize team performance
Optimize team performance with benchmarks, goal-tracking and AI coaching recommendations to improve workforce productivity.
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Frequently asked questions about productivity management & measurement
What is productivity management?
What is productivity management?
Productivity management is a framework that helps organizations improve productivity for individual employees and teams. It includes planning, measuring, and implementing changes to increase output or quality by helping employees work more effectively.
By understanding factors that promote and detract from productivity, managers can create strategies to maximize performance such as goal setting, offering incentives, investing in development, and adjusting communication practices. To be effective long-term, productivity management should be an ongoing process that involves tweaks as changes occur.
Productivity management tools often include employee performance tracker capabilities that help teams understand work patterns and performance outcomes.
What are productivity management tools?
What are productivity management tools?
Productivity management tools collect and organize data about employee productivity to help inform business decisions and improve performance. These tools come in the form of productivity management software and go beyond indicating whether an employee is working or not.
Using employee activity data, productivity management tools provide insights into productivity factors like time management, technology usage, focus time, context-switching and more.
Understanding these factors can help business leaders see how time is spent, how employees interact, and how technology is used. The tools can also reveal productivity benchmarks, trends, summaries, and comparisons between employees. Using data-driven insights from productivity management tools, business leaders can identify ways to improve productivity.
What are the benefits of productivity management tools?
What are the benefits of productivity management tools?
Productivity management tools help businesses understand how employees work and the factors that positively or negatively impact productivity. By understanding things that influence productivity, businesses can improve performance and focus by encouraging good habits and mitigating barriers to productivity. Productivity measurement tools can be equally beneficial to employees, as the software may identify ineffective processes that can be revised to help them work smarter, not harder. As a result, productivity measurement tools equip employees to achieve personal goals without overworking or burning out.