AI-Powered Workforce Analytics for Optimizing Global Teams

Hubstaff uses AI to transform tracked time and activity data into real-time insights and performance trends, helping leaders make smarter, faster decisions about their teams.

We use time tracking for international teams for payroll purposes because we can make sure that people are not unproductive or wasting our time.

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Benefits of innovative workforce analytics software

A powerful workforce analytics software powers remote and hybrid teams by combining time tracking and actionable productivity insights on workforce performance. Business leaders can see real-time updates on their dashboard to identify trends and patterns to prevent burnout. 

Prevent burnout with AI-powered insights

Hubstaff’s Insights transforms time and activity data into real-time visibility across projects, hours, and workloads. Get AI-powered summaries on productivity trends, PTO, and focus time to spot overwork early and balance capacity—keeping teams healthy and high-performing.

Optimize processes with data-driven decisions

Spot bottlenecks and adjust project scope in real time with real-time updates on billable hours, project spend, and more. Hubstaff has over 35+ integrations with premier project management tools like Asana, Jira, Monday.com, and Tasks to gain visibility into your performance on every task and project. 

Enhance team accountability

Keep work visible and fair with real-time productivity monitoring. Hubstaff shows activity levels, app and URL usage, and time spent on tasks—helping managers understand effort and progress without micromanaging. Build accountability through data teams trust.

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How does workforce analytics work?

  1. Track time across projects and roles

    Teams start by tracking time to tasks and projects using Hubstaff’s desktop, mobile, or web-connected apps. From there, accurate, role-based time tracking establishes the foundation for workforce insights on utilization, capacity, performance trends, and more.

  2. Collect productivity signals (optional, configurable)

    For teams that enable productivity monitoring on desktop, Hubstaff captures high-level signals like activity rates, app and URL usage, and idle time. These signals are intended to provide context, not surveillance. All settings are optional, transparent, and configurable via role-based permissions.

  3. Analyze trends with workforce analytics (Insights)

    Hubstaff’s Insights add-on turns tracked time and productivity signals into workforce analytics dashboards. Managers can spot utilization patterns, capacity gaps, workload imbalances, and unusual activity trends across teams and roles — focusing on long-term efficiency. Data can be filtered and exported for planning, leadership reviews, and audits.

Key workforce analytics capabilities in Hubstaff 

Explore the Hubstaff workforce analytics features that surface utilization trends, capacity gaps, and efficiency insights using aggregated, time-based data.

Time-based utilization

Compare actual hours worked to expected time with real-time utilization across teams, roles, and departments. Workforce analytics data replaces assumptions with consistent, time-based utilization trends.

Capacity planning

Plan future work with confidence by identifying capacity gaps, workload constraints, and delivery limits before they impact results. Workforce analytics help teams forecast staffing needs and rebalance work using historical utilization trends.

Reporting

Choose from up to 20+ fully customizable reports for hours worked, earnings, project costs, expenses, and more. Filter by employee, project, or date, and email them directly to key stakeholders from the app. Or, export this data in Excel or PDF format for better recordkeeping.

Workload balance & burnout risk

Detect uneven work distribution and sustained overload patterns across teams over time. Workforce analytics help prevent burnout by supporting healthier, more sustainable workloads.

AI-powered unusual activity tracking

Get alerted to patterns that may indicate low engagement or decreased productivity. Hubstaff's AI automatically detects unusual activity levels (like significant drops in keyboard and mouse usage) so you can address issues before they impact performance.

Productivity & efficiency trends

Analyze long-term efficiency trends, including focus patterns, core versus non-core work, and meeting impact. Improve operational performance without relying on real-time employee monitoring.  

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