Employee productivity tracking
Employee productivity tracking that
measures work, not keystrokes
Employee productivity monitoring software measures how much work time goes to core tools versus distractions and idle time, by person and team. Intelogos scores productivity with categories set per department, so a designer's tools and an accountant's tools are judged differently.
Intelogos doesn't take screenshots. Intelogos doesn't record what people type; it records only whether keyboard or mouse input happened.
Fair measurement
How do you measure employee productivity fairly?
Measure active time in the tools that matter for each role against the hours people are expected to work, judge each role by its own tools, and read the numbers as trends with context rather than as a daily score. Intelogos is built around those four rules.
Judge each role by its own tools
Every app and website is Primary, Secondary, Distracting or Neutral, set for all users and overridden per department. Figma is Primary for Design and Neutral for Finance; Excel is the other way round.
Count active work, not screen time
A minute counts toward Productivity only when there was keyboard or mouse input inside a work tool. An open app with nobody at the keyboard adds nothing, and so does a busy afternoon in Distracting tools.
Compare with expected hours, not with each other
The denominator is the work schedule, from policies set for the company or for specific teams and people, so a part-time analyst isn't penalized next to a full-time one. KPIs run in each person's local time zone.
Let people see their own numbers
Regular users see their own data, either time only or time, activity, tool usage and more, and never anyone else's. Managers see only the people assigned to them. The desktop agent is visible and can be stopped by the user.
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How scoring works
How does Intelogos score productivity?
With importance categories. Every app and website is Primary, Secondary, Distracting or Neutral, set for all users and overridden per department, and Productivity counts only active minutes in Primary and Secondary tools against the time each person is expected to work.
Productivity KPI
Active work minutes in primary and secondary tools ÷ Expected work time × 100
240 active minutes in work tools on an 8-hour day (480 minutes) is 50%. If any second within a minute is active, the whole minute counts.
- 40 to 60%
- strong for most roles
- Above 60%
- exceptional
- Above roughly 40%
- generally acceptable for most jobs
- Engagement is the share of tracked time in Primary and Secondary tools; Productivity adds activity and divides by expected time instead of tracked time.
- New tools start as Neutral and count toward neither KPI, so review the Neutral list; presets by job role give you a baseline.
- The Overall Rating weights Availability, Activity, Engagement and Productivity the way you choose, per department or job title.
Read the help center on importance categories and the Productivity KPI.
Pick a department
Department settings override the All users default. A Marketing team could set YouTube to Secondary, and Engineering could leave Figma as Neutral. Illustration with sample data.
Team reports
What does a team productivity report show?
The Team page lists the KPIs for every person side by side, grouped by department, manager or job title with an average row per group, and the Daily page shows each person's day in 10-minute blocks. Both export to CSV, and Generate Insights writes an AI report from either.
| Name | Workday | Activity | Engagement | Productivity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Design (3) | 8h 05m | 31% | 74% | 52% |
| Maya L. | 8h 20m | 34% | 78% | 56% |
| Jonas K. | 7h 50m | 29% | 72% | 50% |
| Priya S. | 8h 05m | 30% | 71% | 49% |
| Support (3) | 8h 25m | 38% | 78% | 55% |
| Ana R. | 8h 10m | 36% | 80% | 57% |
| Dev P. | 8h 45m | 41% | 79% | 56% |
| Tom S. | 8h 20m | 37% | 76% | 52% |
Maya L.
Ana R.
Tom S.
- Primary tools
- Secondary tools
- Neutral tools
- Distracting tools
- Idle
- No data (break)
Managers see only the people assigned to them; Chronicle, the minute-by-minute list of every application and window, is limited to Owners and to Admins and Managers who are granted access. For capacity and tool spend across the whole company, see our workforce analytics software.
Context over raw activity
How do you keep the numbers honest?
Treat activity as context, not as a score. Intelogos measures whether keyboard or mouse input happened, and its own help center says Activity near 100% can point to a mouse jiggler rather than a hard worker.
Activity near 100% is a warning, not a win
Activity is the share of tracked seconds with mouse or keyboard input, and 20 to 50% is typical. Sustained activity near 100% for a full day is humanly very difficult, so the help center treats it as a sign that something other than a person is generating input, such as an auto-clicker or a mouse jiggler, and suggests opening Chronicle to see what was happening.
Input-faking devices are a symptom
People buy mouse jigglers when a tool rewards raw activity. Scoring active minutes in the right tools against expected hours gives less reason to fake input, and the Activity KPI makes the pattern visible when someone does. Our guide on how to track remote employee productivity without micromanaging covers the management side.
Categorize before you compare
Tools that nobody has categorized sit in Neutral and count toward neither Engagement nor Productivity, so low numbers are often a categorization gap rather than a behavior problem. Review the Neutral list before reading a drop as a decline.
Read ranges and trends, with context
For an 8-hour expectation a Workday of 7h 30m to 8h 30m is healthy, and 9 to 10 or more hours day after day points to burnout risk, not high performance. Meetings, reading and calls lower Activity even though real work happened, so compare a person with their own previous period before comparing them with anyone else.
Employee productivity monitoring software, without the surveillance
Employee productivity monitoring software records how work time is spent, such as hours, applications and activity, so managers can spot overload, distraction and blockers. Here is what Intelogos measures, what it never captures and how that differs from surveillance.
What Intelogos measures
- Time worked: when the workday starts and ends, breaks and idle periods
- Application and website usage: which tools are used and for how long
- Activity levels: keyboard and mouse interaction, used to tell active time from idle time
- Reported as KPIs: Productivity, Engagement, Activity, Workday, Availability, Contribution and an Overall Rating
What it never captures
- Screenshots or screen recordings
- Keystroke content (which keys are pressed or what is typed)
- Mouse click content, cursor positions or movements
- Webcam images or audio recordings
- The substantive content displayed on screen
Window titles and website URLs may still contain sensitive or personal information, such as email subject lines, document titles or search queries.
Privacy policyHow it differs from surveillance
- Desktop agents run visibly, and people can start, stop or quit them at any time.
- Background agents for company-owned computers run without an icon, so tell your team what is measured and why before you deploy them.
- Employees can see their own data at the level your company chooses: time only, or time plus activity, tool usage and KPIs.
- Managers see only the people they manage, and the minute-by-minute Chronicle timeline is limited to owners and to admins and managers who are granted access.
Core Features
Complete Productivity Intelligence
Everything you need to understand, measure, and improve team productivity with AI-powered insights
Productivity Scoring
Productivity and an Overall Rating for every person and team, calculated from active time in work tools against expected hours, with trends by day, week and month.
Focus & Engagement Analysis
See how actively each tool is used (high, medium or low engagement) and when people do their most active work, for every person and team.
Team Productivity Comparisons
Compare people, departments, projects and managers in the Leaders table, with department and company ranks on each profile. Identify top performers and teams needing support with data, not guesswork.
Productivity Trends & AI Reports
Trend charts show how productivity changes over time, and Generate Insights turns any page into a written report with recommendations and risk flags.
Plans
Pricing
Employee productivity monitoring software from Intelogos is priced per license per month. Yearly billing saves 20%, both paid plans start with a free trial, and the prices here are read from the same config as the pricing page.
Analytics
For data-driven teams
$8/license/month, billed yearly
$10 /license/month billed monthly
- Basic AI (5 insights/month)
- Engagement, Productivity, Activity & more
- Team & daily activity views
- Chronicle detailed activity logs
- Advanced reports & snapshots
AI Intelligence
Includes Ask AIAI-powered management
$12/license/month, billed yearly
$15 /license/month billed monthly
- Everything in Analytics
- Advanced AI
- Ask AI assistant
- Chat history
- Start conversation from insights
Enterprise
Security and scale
Custom
Priced for your team, with a dedicated account manager
- Everything in AI Intelligence
- SSO/SAML authentication
- Audit logs
- Custom data retention
- API access
Every plan and feature is on the pricing page. Want a walkthrough first? Book a demo.
Who it's for
Who is Intelogos for?
Intelogos scores work in the right tools against expected hours. It fits these teams best.
Managers of computer-based teams who want productivity scored by role, with categories set per department.
Ops leaders comparing teams on the same seven KPIs, grouped by department, manager or job title.
Remote and hybrid teams that want trends and context instead of screenshots. Remote employee monitoring software
Companies that want employees to see their own data, at the level the company chooses.
FAQs
Employee productivity monitoring software questions
Common questions about employee productivity metrics, how Intelogos scores productivity, and whether an employee productivity tracker is legal.
Answers about the law are general information, not legal advice. See our guide to employee monitoring laws by state and talk to counsel.
Sources
The product facts on this page come from the Intelogos help center articles linked below, read on the date shown. Checked October 7, 2026.
- Importance categories (Primary, Secondary, Distracting and Neutral; department overrides; presets)
- Productivity KPI (formula, example and the 40 to 60% range)
- Engagement KPI (definition and the Neutral-tools caveat)
- Activity KPI (the 20 to 50% range and the mouse jiggler note)
- Workday KPI (healthy range and burnout risk reading)
- Team page guide (grouping, group averages, columns and CSV export)
- Roles and access (what regular users and managers can see)
- Employee monitoring laws by state (notice statutes cited in the legal FAQ)
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