Idle time tracking software for identifying employee inactivity

Hubstaff's automatic idle detection software detects mouse and keyboard inactivity to spot productivity loss, prevent money leaks, and improve team efficiency.
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Accurate payroll
Seamlessly convert time tracking data to timesheets and streamline payroll through integrations with your favorite tools.
Improved project costing
Master project costing with real-time budget tracking, automated invoicing, and detailed reports.
Employee empowerment
Provide employees with live productivity analytics and reports for one-on-ones and performance reviews.

Idle time tracker for improving employee productivity

Reduce time theft, buddy punching, and productivity loss due to inactive work sessions with Hubstaff's Idle time tracker.

Idle time detection

Automated idle time detection

Receive automatic alerts for users who forget to start the timer, take prolonged breaks, or go idle during work sessions. Hubstaff’s Idle Time Alert helps keep teams accountable and creates better cost control.

Hubstaff desktop app showing idle time prompt with time tracking and task management on macOS Catalina background.
Customizable settings

Custom idle settings

Tweak Hubstaff’s idle time tracking settings to your liking with fully customizable settings. Adjust idle timeouts to increments of 5, 10, or 20 minutes, custom, or never for your organization. Or, set specific parameters for individual users based on their job duties to help team members stay engaged, active, and productive during work hours.

Hubstaff settings page showing default and individual user options for handling idle time: Prompt, Always, or Never.
Idle time reports

Idle time reporting

Track time and productivity loss tied to inactivity with idle time reporting. Hubstaff lets you filter by each user's idle time percentage or idle time hours. From there, you can pull a detailed breakdown of what projects, tasks, and hours were interrupted by idle timeouts.

Hubstaff time and activity report dashboard showing team hours, activity levels, and amount spent for projects and members.
Optional screenshots

Automated time tracking with screenshots 

Hubstaff offers flexibility with a fully customizable screenshot feature. Enable, disable, or blur optional screenshots based on your management style. You can also adjust time intervals between screenshots and users can delete them at any time.

Hubstaff dashboard showing team activity, hours worked, daily limits, recent activity screenshots, and member productivity.
Privacy

Privacy controls

Privacy controls give managers the tools to build a culture of trust and transparency across their organization. Enable, disable, or blur screenshots and app and URL tracking for your entire organization or on a per-user basis. Hubstaff will never record keystrokes, monitor emails, or have video recordings in place.

Hubstaff activity report showing screenshots, productivity stats, focus time, and work classification.
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How to set up employee idle time monitoring

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Seamless payment across teams

Manage payroll with all-in-one time tracking software. Generate timesheets and invoices and transfer funds via popular payment tools. 

Activity and productivity tracking for teams

Using the activity log in the Hubstaff time tracking app, measure productivity and activity levels. Share this data with teams to boost employee performance and morale.

Employee task tracking best practices

Learn the best employee task management and tracking practices to organize projects better, hold teams accountable, and improve workflows.

Make data-driven decisions with workforce insights

Keep track of productivity trends and activity drops and spot inefficiencies from a single dashboard. 

How to monitor remote team productivity

Optimize remote work, boost employee performance and productivity, and streamline business operations with time tracking software.

Unlock efficiency with time reporting

Review time reports for billable hours and productivity trends to keep projects scalable and profitable. 

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