Services

Know where the working day actually goes.

Workforce analytics built on ActivTrak, deployed and reported on by us, with the impact assessment, the lawful basis and the staff privacy notice written as part of the set-up. Monitoring people is regulated. We do the regulated part.

Why it matters

Most businesses are guessing at how the week is spent.

Hybrid made capacity planning a guess. You know what people are working on because they told you, you know how busy they are because they said so, and when you need to justify a hire or explain where a project went, the evidence is a feeling. That is a hard way to run a service business.

The other half is policy. Working-time rules, acceptable technology use and hybrid attendance are easy to write and hard to evidence. An auditor, an insurer or a tribunal will ask what you actually know, and "we assume people follow it" is not an answer.

From £20Per user, per month
ActivTrakSOC 2 Type 2 and UK GDPR
DPIAWritten as part of set-up
12 monthsMinimum term, billed annually
How it works

Activity in, governance in the middle, insight out.

Before anything is switched on

Monitoring staff is regulated. Here is what has to exist first.

This is the part most people skip. Systematic monitoring of workers is high-risk processing under UK GDPR, and the ICO expects the paperwork to exist before the software does. A client can licence ActivTrak directly for a fraction of what we charge. What they cannot buy directly is any of the following, all of which is included in every plan on this page.

  • A Data Protection Impact Assessment. Required before systematic monitoring begins. We write the first draft from the configuration we agree with you, and revise it whenever the configuration changes.
  • A documented lawful basis. Normally legitimate interests, which needs a written assessment weighing your purpose against the intrusion on staff. We produce it. You approve it.
  • A staff privacy notice. In plain English, issued to workers before monitoring starts: what is collected, why, who can see it, and how long it is kept.
  • A retention period. Set and enforced in the platform rather than left at the vendor default, so you are not holding four years of activity data you never needed.
  • Proportionate configuration. We switch off what you do not need. Screen detail and keystroke-level capture are off unless there is a specific justification recorded in the assessment.
  • Access control. Who sees individual-level data and who sees only team aggregates, decided by you and enforced with role-based access. The default we deploy is team aggregates.
  • No covert monitoring. We will not configure it. The ICO treats covert monitoring as justifiable only in exceptional circumstances involving suspected criminal activity, and it has its own authorisation route that does not run through us.
  • Answerable subject access requests. A worker can ask for the monitoring data held about them. Because retention and structure are set deliberately, that request can be answered rather than panicked about.
Plans

Employee productivity monitoring, three plans. Paperwork included.

Per user per month, excluding VAT, on a 12-month term because ActivTrak bills annually only. No minimum seat count. Every plan includes the set-up documents above, the platform configuration and a written monthly report.

Activity Tracking

Are the hours and policies being followed?

From £20 /user/mo

12-month term · no seat minimum

  • Automatic time tracking, no timesheets
  • Real-time activity visibility
  • Break time identification
  • Attendance and schedule adherence
  • Application and website usage
  • Compliance alarms
  • Six months of history
Talk to us about Activity Tracking

Work Redesign

What should change, and where does AI belong?

Quoted

12-month term · no seat minimum

  • Everything in Workforce Insight
  • Work pattern and task discovery
  • Prioritised recommendations
  • AI and automation opportunities
  • People, process and technology insights
  • Post-change impact measurement
  • One year of history
Talk to us about Work Redesign

Add-ons, per user per month unless stated: AI insights £8, extended data history £2 for up to three years, periodic screen detail quoted and only with a documented justification, and a Power BI, Tableau or Looker Studio connector quoted. HRIS integration quoted.

Straight answer

What it measures, and what it does not.

The second column matters more than the first. A monitoring product you cannot describe honestly to your own staff is one you should not deploy.

What It Measures
  • Applications and websites, and for how long
  • Active and idle time, and break time
  • Attendance against the schedule you set
  • Meeting time, including away from the keyboard
  • Whether hybrid location policy is being met
What It Does Not
  • The content of messages, documents or email
  • Keystrokes, unless you ask and it is justified
  • Screens, unless you ask and it is justified
  • Personal devices outside the agreed policy
  • Anything at all covertly
Book an assessment

Monthly report Team view

Delivery team at 94% utilisation for the third month. Two people carrying the overflow. Evidence for the hire you were arguing about.

Licence review Quarterly

Eleven seats of a design suite, four in regular use. The saving pays for a chunk of the subscription.

Compare plans

What is in each workforce analytics plan.

What each workforce analytics plan includes, by service line
Service line Activity tracking Workforce insight Work redesign
What it measures
Time and activity Automatic time tracking, active and idle time, no timesheets to fill in Included Included Included
Applications and websites Which tools and sites are used and for how long Included Included Included
Break time Breaks identified and measured rather than guessed at Included Included Included
Attendance and schedule adherence Working hours against the schedule you set Included Included Included
Meeting time Time in meetings, including offline and away from the keyboard Not included Included Included
Work location policy Whether hybrid and office-day policies are being met Not included Included Included
Screen detail capture Periodic screen detail where there is a documented justification Add-on Add-on Add-on
What you get out of it
Real-time activity visibility Current activity across teams Included Included Included
Compliance alarms Alerts when a policy threshold is crossed Included Included Included
Monthly reporting from us A written report and a conversation about what it shows Included Included Included
Utilisation and workload balance Where capacity is going and who is carrying too much Not included Included Included
Productivity against goals Team performance against the targets you set Not included Included Included
Schedule exception reporting Exceptions and their trend over time Not included Included Included
Team benchmarks and goals Comparison between teams and against your own baseline Not included Included Included
Capacity and headcount planning Evidence for hiring and resourcing decisions Not included Included Included
Coaching opportunities Where support would help rather than where to discipline Not included Included Included
Technology investment analysis Which licences are used and which are shelfware Not included Included Included
Work pattern and task discovery How work actually flows across people and tools Not included Not included Included
Prioritised recommendations A ranked list of what to change first Not included Not included Included
AI and automation opportunities Where automation or AI would genuinely help Not included Not included Included
Post-change impact measurement Whether the change you made worked Not included Not included Included
Data history How far back the data goes 6 months 1 year 1 year
Governance and control
Data protection impact assessment Drafted by us from the configuration we agree Included Included Included
Legitimate interests assessment Your lawful basis documented and weighed Included Included Included
Staff privacy notice Plain English, issued to workers before monitoring starts Included Included Included
Retention period Set and enforced in the platform Included Included Included
Role-based access control Who sees individual data and who sees team aggregates Included Included Included
Proportionate configuration Everything you do not need switched off Included Included Included
Subject access support Monitoring data retrievable when a worker asks for it Included Included Included
Add-ons
AI insights AI adoption and benchmarking, productivity impact, cost optimisation £8 per user £8 per user £8 per user
Extended data history Up to three years of history £2 per user £2 per user £2 per user
BI connector Power BI, Tableau or Looker Studio Quoted Quoted Quoted
HRIS integration Sync people data from your HR system Quoted Quoted Quoted
Who it is for

Teams you cannot see across a room.

Hybrid and remote teams where capacity planning has become guesswork. Regulated firms that have to evidence working-time and technology policy adherence rather than assert it. Professional services measuring utilisation against what they bill. Operations teams building a case for headcount.

And anyone about to spend money on AI. The awkward truth about most AI rollouts is that nobody measured the before, so nobody can prove the after. The Work Redesign plan pairs with our AI and Automation service for exactly that reason.

  1. The assessment

    What question are you actually trying to answer, and is monitoring a proportionate way to answer it? Sometimes it is not, and we will say so.

  2. The paperwork

    We draft the impact assessment, the lawful basis and the staff privacy notice from the configuration we agree. You approve them before anything is deployed.

  3. Deployment

    Agents pushed to managed devices, retention and access roles set, everything you do not need switched off.

  4. The monthly report

    A written report and a conversation about what it shows. Nobody reads a dashboard they have to go and find.

FAQ

Common questions about employee monitoring.

Is employee monitoring legal in the UK?

Yes, with conditions, and the conditions are the work. You need a lawful basis, normally legitimate interests backed by a written assessment weighing your purpose against the intrusion on staff. Systematic monitoring is high-risk processing, so the ICO expects a Data Protection Impact Assessment before it is switched on. Workers have to be told what is collected and why. Monitoring has to be proportionate to the problem you are actually solving. We produce the assessment, the lawful basis and the privacy notice as part of the set-up, and configure the platform to match them.

Do we have to tell staff?

Yes. Transparency is not optional, and a privacy notice issued before monitoring starts is part of every deployment we do. Covert monitoring is a separate thing entirely: the ICO treats it as justifiable only in exceptional circumstances involving suspected criminal activity, with its own authorisation route. We do not configure it.

Does it record screens, keystrokes or the content of messages?

Not by default, and we would talk you out of most reasons for asking. The platform records which applications and websites are used and for how long, not what is typed or read in them. Periodic screen detail is available as an add-on, but only where there is a specific justification recorded in the impact assessment, and it is off in every deployment unless you ask and we agree it stands up.

What can managers actually see?

Whatever you decide, enforced with role-based access. The default we deploy is team-level aggregates: utilisation, schedule adherence and application usage across a team rather than a feed of individuals. Individual-level access is available where there is a reason for it, given to named people, and recorded. Most clients find the team view answers the question they actually had.

What does it measure, and how accurate is it?

Active and idle time, the applications and websites in use and for how long, break time, attendance against the schedule you set, and from Workforce Insight upward meeting time including time away from the keyboard, and whether hybrid location policies are being met. It is accurate about what a device was doing. It is not a measure of a person's worth, and we will not help you use it as one.

How is it priced and what is the commitment?

Activity Tracking is £20 per user per month, excluding VAT. Workforce Insight and Work Redesign are quoted, because what they cost depends on how much of the analysis and reporting you want us to run rather than on the licence alone. There is no minimum seat count. The term is 12 months because ActivTrak bills annually only. The impact assessment, the lawful basis, the staff privacy notice, the configuration and monthly reporting are included in the price rather than quoted separately.

Assessment first, software after

Start with the assessment, not the software.

Tell us what you are trying to find out and how many people it covers. We will tell you whether monitoring is a proportionate way to answer it, what the paperwork looks like, and what it costs per user.