Scale confidently with employee monitoring software that makes work visible
Get a full view of your team’s workday instead of guessing. See app and URL usage, optional screenshots, and activity levels in real-time. Use these data points to better understand productivity, support compliance, and build ownership as your business grows.
Hubstaff is a great tool for businesses that operate remotely because it gives accountability to employees and streamlined tracking capabilities for the managers.
What sets Hubstaff apart from other employee monitoring tools?
Move away from surveillance to meaningful productivity insights that help build a culture of accountability and transparency. Hubstaff supports standardized processes and controls across IT, Operations, and HR workflows to improve performance and support compliance.
Key features of remote employee monitoring
Built on time tracking
Time tracking ties every task, project, and team to a verifiable audit trail trusted by IT, finance, and security teams. Keep screenshots, app and URL usage, idle time, and workforce analytics at your fingertips to support compliance and quickly answer auditor requests.
Employee tracking
Track employee time and productivity on Mac, Windows, Linux, web, and mobile. See real-time data for hours, productivity, earnings, PTO, and more, right from a fully customizable dashboard. On mobile, you can also track GPS locations for better route planning and field team management.
Optional, privacy-first screenshots
Enable, disable, blur, or customize screenshot frequency to align with your company policy, regional privacy laws, and compliance needs. Customize permission settings by role, team, or region for better visibility, security, and trust as your business scales.
Computer and internet usage monitoring
Meet company policies and compliance needs with configurable roles and permissions. Set role-specific tracking limits, manage access, and customize screenshots by job type to ensure structured governance and oversight across growing teams.
Clear policies and controls
Manage to your morals and compliance needs with customizable roles and permissions. Set limits, manage data visibility, or enable, disable, blur, or adjust the frequency of screenshots based on each user’s job duties.
Audit-ready and compliant by design
Confidently pass audits and security reviews with configurable permissions, detailed reporting, and activity data linked to time logs. Hubstaff meets SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, and GDPR standards and provides enterprise-ready infrastructure for standardized monitoring across hybrid, remote, and distributed teams.
Trusted across industries and team types
Hubstaff's employee monitoring capabilities give remote, distributed, and hybrid teams consistent visibility into work progress and productivity. Over 140,000 users rely on Hubstaff to standardize trust, accountability, and compliance across:
How to use Hubstaff for employee tracking
Download the Hubstaff employee monitoring app
Users can install Hubstaff’s desktop, mobile, or web apps for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android. Monitoring features are optional and fully customizable for desktop users, while the mobile app offers time tracking and GPS location tracking for distributed teams.
Customize monitoring features with transparency
Managers can enable, disable, blur, or adjust the frequency of monitoring features with role-based permissions for app, website usage, activity levels, screenshots (optional), and more. These built-in privacy controls ensure visibility and accountability without leaning too much towards surveillance.
See real-time data and review reports
Meet compliance requirements with detailed reports covering time, activity, and productivity insights, keeping you ready to tackle audits whenever they happen. Scale with standardized workforce management across every team, department, and region, while giving managers visibility into work and employees transparent access to their own data.
Hubstaff’s guiding principles
Monitoring features are built to add visibility into employee performance for both individual contributors and their managers. Use this performance data to inform staffing, compliance, or client reporting decisions while users gain transparency into what’s being tracked and how the data will be used.
How Hubstaff supports secure and transparent employee monitoring
Storing screenshots
Storing screenshots
The software stores screenshots via SSL over HTTPS, but they never pass through our server. Users can access all of their tracked data whenever they need to. If your employees need to delete screenshots containing personal data, they can do so anytime.
Lets employees be in full control of their data
Lets employees be in full control of their data
Employees decide when to start and stop the timer. They are also in full control of their data and have the option to delete time entries and screenshots.
Monitoring during work hours only
Monitoring during work hours only
Hubstaff tracks time and activity only while the timer is running, collecting no data outside of active work sessions (unless on corporate-owned devices).
Employee monitoring best practices
Employee monitoring laws
Stay abreast of employee monitoring laws in your state, country, or region. Check out our guide to employee monitoring laws to ensure compliance and get buy-in from your employees — but don’t forget to consult legal professionals as needed.
The ethics of employee monitoring
Not sure where you stand on employee monitoring? Check out our guide for more information, laws, and best practices on ethical employee monitoring and discover how you can customize monitoring software to your morals.
How to monitor employee internet activity
Discover how you can monitor employee internet activity ethically while remaining compliant. Our intuitive guide offers helpful tips, comparisons of the best tools available, and industry best practices to help you build a culture of trust and transparency.
Track productivity with desktop monitoring
Take the guesswork out of productivity. Use desktop monitoring for app usage and URL tracking to analyze overall engagement levels. Improve project transparency with accurate timeline updates for clients, while boosting accountability and focus across your team.
Gauge social media usage
Track employee social media usage in real-time during work hours. Set custom alerts and receive notifications when usage exceeds set thresholds. Minimize distractions and support better time management across your team with social media monitoring.
My people need to document their work so that I can have visibility into what they did during the day. Using Hubstaff reduces the meeting time I needed and gives me clarity into what was done and what wasn’t.
Affordable Staff turned to Hubstaff to manage and pay contractors and freelancers, streamlining operations as it grew. It saves $170,000 annually thanks to our platform.
Our smart audits on time per task save Yac 20 hours each month. “It’s been nice to have something that looks clean, simple, and easy-to-use, that just works.
Hubstaff automatically gathers all company information — hours tracked towards projects and budgets, for example — and builds custom reports.