Workforce planning software for effective resource management

Empower your team to reach their full potential with Hubstaff’s capacity planning software. Manage resources, forecast projects, and effectively manage workflows to avoid overworked teams with time tracking, live budgeting, reporting, and more.
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Capacity planning software features for optimal resource utilization

Maximize your team’s bandwidth and minimize wasted resources with Hubstaff’s capacity planning tools. Keep projects on budget, optimize staffing, and forecast future needs with real-time data. Make smarter decisions about resource allocation to ensure projects are efficient and profitable for your clients.

Project budgets

Manage project profitability with live budgeting.

With project cost management features, you can control time tracking, manage client profitability, and ensure every project stays on track and within budget. Set limits by hours and cost, track progress in real-time, and receive alerts when you’re in danger of going over budget.

Hubstaff project budgets report showing monthly spend, budget allocation, remaining hours, and costs for multiple projects.
Utilization

Utilize your team’s full capacity and forecast future needs.

Hubstaff’s utilization rate shows how effectively teams use their available hours: (Tracked Time ÷ Available Time) × 100. Use it to monitor workload, identify inefficiencies, and maintain teams at a healthy, sustainable pace (75–80%).

Meeting and Focus Time

Stay on top of meeting overload to optimize workflows.

Find the perfect balance between meetings and focused work with Hubstaff’s desktop, mobile, or Chrome extension. Meeting and Focus Time data helps you spot meeting overload, optimize workflows, and keep projects moving forward with greater clarity and balance.

Hubstaff Insights productivity
Integrations

Use integrated workflows for smart project management.

Effective capacity planning is about assigning the right people to the right tasks at the right time. Hubstaff integrates with tools like Jira and Asana to help you manage performance across projects, making it easier to effectively plan and monitor workloads.

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Work time classification

See exactly where time goes and spot inefficiencies.

Gain visibility into how work time is spent with work time classifications for core, non-core, or unproductive. Tweak settings based on industry or job type to spot inefficiencies, optimize workloads, and keep projects on time and under budget.

Hubstaff Insights widget showing a pie chart of core, non-core, and unproductive work.
Work time expenditure

Tie time to cost for smarter project planning.

Track work time expenditure with intuitive time tracking and expense management features. Manage time spent on projects and tasks, see real-time activity rates (without keystroke logging), and create timesheets with ease. With detailed reports on productivity, budgets, and expenses, you can make smarter decisions, control project costs, and improve work patterns.

Apps, URLs, & AI

Spot productivity trends with apps and AI usage.

Unlock smarter capacity planning with clear visibility into AI tool usage. Hubstaff’s new AI category in Apps & URLs tracks time spent on tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Pre-tagged and fully customizable by org or job type, you can assess adoption, streamline work, and allocate resources more effectively.

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Scheduling

Get full visibility into staffing schedules.

Employee scheduling helps you plan shifts based on actual availability and workload needs. Create shifts, set reminders, and optimize schedules to align with demand. You can also set recurring shifts on a weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly basis with predictive scheduling.

Attendance tracking

Track attendance for better shift management.

Hubstaff’s attendance tracking capability gives you real-time visibility into attendance so you plan shifts with confidence. Schedule around upcoming PTO and country-specific holidays with the Time-off Balance Report. You can also set reminders for late, missed, or abandoned shifts to make scheduling adjustments on the fly for smarter capacity planning.

Hubstaff timesheet features
Job tracking

Monitor project progress and productivity with job tracking.

Job tracking breaks down time spent by role, task, or job type, so you can assess team performance, spot inefficiencies, and generate accurate timesheets for payroll. Align resources with high-priority work for optimal workforce planning. Simplify project flows, improve collaboration, and ensure projects stay under budget.

Hubstaff Work orders view showing open and closed jobs
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How capacity planning software works

  1. Download the Hubstaff app and start tracking time

    Get your team up and running by downloading the Hubstaff app on Windows, Mac, iOS, or the Chrome extension. Start tracking time effortlessly across projects to unlock visibility into workloads.

  2. Track time per project and rebalance resources

    Monitor how time is spent by team, role, or task in real time. You can also create schedules, spot imbalances, and shift resources as needed to ensure that everyone is working at a sustainable and productive pace.

  3. Process accurate payments and invoices

    Track time, automatically generate timesheets, and streamline payroll in one cohesive workflow. You can also create custom invoices with automated line items to keep your projects profitable and your billing transparent.

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