Hubstaff features for operational visibility

From time tracking and payroll to productivity monitoring and workforce analytics, Hubstaff helps global teams operate with greater visibility and accountability.

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Time tracking

Standardize how work time is captured so teams can reduce manual admin, keep records accurate, and run payroll, billing, and scheduling with confidence. Track time automatically or by using a start-and-stop timer across desktop and mobile apps, while managing hours, attendance, schedules, time off, and PTO in one place.

Automated timesheets

Track time to generate timesheets in real-time. Timesheet approvals trigger payments to various providers, like Wise, PayPal, and Payoneer, directly from the Hubstaff app.

Project and task tracking

Track time to projects and tasks, set budget limits, and prevent scope creep with live adjustments to resources and project spend for better budgeting.

Time reports

Built-in time reporting shows how work hours translate to ROI with a clear view of hours worked, earnings, overtime, and more.

Attendance and time off tracking

Keep track of schedules, absences, PTO, work breaks, and time off in one place to optimize schedules and allocate resources effectively across teams.

Time tracking apps and extensions

Your team has the flexibility to track time from several apps and extensions, like Linux, Mac, Windows, Chrome, Firefox, Android, and iOS.

Hubstaff guiding principles

Hubstaff’s guiding principles are built around transparency, access, and control to empower teams to have full visibility and privacy over their time tracking data.

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Productivity monitoring

Use configurable productivity monitoring to improve performance while supporting transparency, privacy, and compliance needs. Combine employee activity tracking, app and URL usage, idle time tracking, and optional screenshots to to spot lost capacity and strengthen accountability.

Monitor app and URL usage

Track app and URL usage to see where your team’s time goes and how AI tools contribute to productivity.

Idle time vs. active time

Use Idle time detection to track active work hours vs. wasted time, while reducing time theft and buddy punching across your organization.

Optional screenshots

Get visibility into team productivity with optional screenshots you can enable, disable, blur, and securely store using role-based permissions.

Track employee activity levels

Assess mouse and keyboard activity and combine it with app and URL tracking, optional screenshots, and other Insights to better understand productivity patterns. Hubstaff never logs keystrokes; it only logs usage frequency.

Compliance and data governance

Hubstaff is compliant with HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, LGPD, and CCPA standards, with secure storage and role-based access controls to help teams operate securely.

Customizable roles and permissions

Protect sensitive data and confidentiality with role-based permissions that limit access to only the people who need it.

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Workforce analytics for global teams

Benchmark performance, surface capacity and performance risks, detect unusual activity, and make better workforce decisions with Hubstaff’s AI-powered workforce analytics platform.

Advanced insights

Help increase team efficiency with real-time insights into focus time, utilization, meetings vs. core work time, and more.

Reporting

Stay informed and make faster decisions with 20+ reports on productivity, payments, work sessions, and activity.

Workforce capacity planning

Simplify workload management with real-time capacity planning that prevents budget overruns and keeps project budgets on track.

Remote vs. in-office performance

Identify where teams work best with remote vs. in-office productivity insights like idle time and daily activity trends.

Detect unusual activity patterns

Managers can use AI-powered anomaly detection and behavioral analytics to quickly identify unusual activity and take action.

Two ways to deploy Hubstaff

Flexible time tracking lets orgs choose between automated time tracking on company devices or interactive tracking on personal devices, depending on operational needs.

Turn data into decisions

Add context to time, activity, and utilization data with workforce intelligence software that helps you uncover bottlenecks, balance capacity, and make more confident workforce decisions.

Explore API capabilities

Access Hubstaff time and workforce data programmatically to build custom reports, dashboards, integrations, and automated workflows.

Build AI-ready workflows

Connect Hubstaff to AI tools through API, CLI, and MCP access to query workforce data, surface trends and anomalies, and automate workflows.

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Over 30 integrations

Hubstaff syncs with the software you’re already using.

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Automated global payments

Reduce manual payment errors and automate payouts through leading payroll providers, with automated timesheets, customizable pay rates, local currency conversions, and project cost allocation.

Budgets

Keep projects profitable by monitoring budgets, labor costs, and expenses with project cost tracking.

Invoicing and billing

Simplify client billing, as time tracking seamlessly transitions from tracked hours to accurate, automated invoices for faster payments.

Employee overtime tracking

Prevent employee burnout and control labor costs with overtime tracking that gives real-time visibility into workloads.

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