How to Communicate Device Tracking Without Breaking Trust
How would you feel if you found out your work device was being monitored by an employee tracking device for months without your knowledge? For most of us, feelings would generall...
Blog posts written by Austin Connolly:
Is Automatic Time Tracking Right for Your Organization?
Automatic time tracking sounds as straightforward as it gets. Employees sit at their desks, the software runs in the background, and the tool does its job while they focus on work....
How to Track Employee Productivity on Company-Owned Devices Without Disrupting Your Team
When teams track employee productivity, what about it do people not like? Is it being tracked? Or is it being tracked without understanding why? There’s a big difference, and...
How Companies Track Time: Insights from 84M+ Hours Logged on Hubstaff
Time tracking sounds simple in theory, but how companies track time can vary drastically based on industry, location, and other factors. In practice, it doesn’t s...
5 Best HIPAA and SOC 2 Compliant Time Tracking Software Applications (2026)
Health care is a challenging profession as leaders are managing patients, staff, schedules, and more — and that’s before audits. Fortunately, HIPAA-compliant time tracking soft...
7 Best AI-Based Time Tracking Software for 2026
The “best AI time tracking software” is one of those seemingly self-explanatory phrases — at least until you try to explain it. When you do, it often opens up a few q...
The ROI of AI in Workforce Tools: Measuring Business Impact in Distributed Teams
It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment AI became the standard in tech, but it’s a bit strange to picture a time before it now. For distributed teams, especially, the ROI of...
7 Tools That Help Teams Monitor AI Usage at Work in 2026
AI is everywhere. Adoption continues to grow, but from monitoring AI usage, we’ve learned that daily use is still a mixed bag, as it accounts for just 4% of work time. For some t...
The 6 Best Time Doctor Alternatives (2026)
Time Doctor is an excellent entry-level time tracking tool with built-in productivity monitoring and reporting, but teams are beginning to outgrow it. If your business is strugglin...
Hidden AI Usage in the Workplace: What Your Tools Don’t Tell You
How much has AI changed your team’s work? On the surface, work might not look that different. The meetings are still there, documents still move through the same channels, and re...
How Many Meetings Are Too Many? 2026 Benchmarks by Role
How many meetings are too many? In 2026, the honest and boring answer is: it depends on your role. Our 2026 Global Trends and Benchmarks Report makes that clear. Individual contrib...
When Evening Work Becomes a Red Flag: How to Fix Triple-Peak Overload with Smarter Core Hours (2026 Data)
Most people don’t remember the first time they worked in the evening, and even fewer people know when the last evening work session is going to be. The one thing we do know is th...
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