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.
Nothing reaches the platform before the paperwork does
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.
We are your IT and security provider, not your legal advisers. We produce the
documents, configure the platform to match them, and tell you when something you
have asked for would not stand up.
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.
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.
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 activityAutomatic time tracking, active and idle time, no timesheets to fill in
Included
Included
Included
Applications and websitesWhich tools and sites are used and for how long
Included
Included
Included
Break timeBreaks identified and measured rather than guessed at
Included
Included
Included
Attendance and schedule adherenceWorking hours against the schedule you set
Included
Included
Included
Meeting timeTime in meetings, including offline and away from the keyboard
Not included
Included
Included
Work location policyWhether hybrid and office-day policies are being met
Not included
Included
Included
Screen detail capturePeriodic screen detail where there is a documented justification
Add-on
Add-on
Add-on
What you get out of it
Real-time activity visibilityCurrent activity across teams
Included
Included
Included
Compliance alarmsAlerts when a policy threshold is crossed
Included
Included
Included
Monthly reporting from usA written report and a conversation about what it shows
Included
Included
Included
Utilisation and workload balanceWhere capacity is going and who is carrying too much
Not included
Included
Included
Productivity against goalsTeam performance against the targets you set
Not included
Included
Included
Schedule exception reportingExceptions and their trend over time
Not included
Included
Included
Team benchmarks and goalsComparison between teams and against your own baseline
Not included
Included
Included
Capacity and headcount planningEvidence for hiring and resourcing decisions
Not included
Included
Included
Coaching opportunitiesWhere support would help rather than where to discipline
Not included
Included
Included
Technology investment analysisWhich licences are used and which are shelfware
Not included
Included
Included
Work pattern and task discoveryHow work actually flows across people and tools
Not included
Not included
Included
Prioritised recommendationsA ranked list of what to change first
Not included
Not included
Included
AI and automation opportunitiesWhere automation or AI would genuinely help
Not included
Not included
Included
Post-change impact measurementWhether the change you made worked
Not included
Not included
Included
Data historyHow far back the data goes
6 months
1 year
1 year
Governance and control
Data protection impact assessmentDrafted by us from the configuration we agree
Included
Included
Included
Legitimate interests assessmentYour lawful basis documented and weighed
Included
Included
Included
Staff privacy noticePlain English, issued to workers before monitoring starts
Included
Included
Included
Retention periodSet and enforced in the platform
Included
Included
Included
Role-based access controlWho sees individual data and who sees team aggregates
Included
Included
Included
Proportionate configurationEverything you do not need switched off
Included
Included
Included
Subject access supportMonitoring data retrievable when a worker asks for it
Included
Included
Included
Add-ons
AI insightsAI adoption and benchmarking, productivity impact, cost optimisation
£8 per user
£8 per user
£8 per user
Extended data historyUp to three years of history
£2 per user
£2 per user
£2 per user
BI connectorPower BI, Tableau or Looker Studio
Quoted
Quoted
Quoted
HRIS integrationSync 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.