Level up your team’s efficiency and accuracy by using Hubstaff’s Insights add-on. With Hubstaff insights, you can view and compare activity benchmarks, as well as define productive and unproductive apps and URLs.
Organizations on Basic/Starter plans will not have access to productive/unproductive apps/URLs and productivity scores.
Table of contents
Signing up for the Insights add-on
Step 1
To sign up for the Insights add-on, navigate to Settings & Policies > Billing.
Step 2
On the Insights box, click Try it for free. This will start your 14-day trial.
Step 3
If you’d like to continue with the paid version before the trial ends, click Add Insights. Insights are priced at $2/user/month or $20/year ($1.67/user/month when billed annually).
Step 4
The confirmation dialog will appear. It will display the total cost of the add-on as well as how many users count towards the price. Click Add Insights to continue.
Insights page
The Insights page can be accessed via the Insights menu on the dashboard sidebar.
Let’s break down the insights page per section.
Highlights
The top section includes a snapshot of your team’s productivity for ease of access to critical metrics. This includes the following:
- Settings – allow you to define productive/unproductive URLs.
- Date picker – select the date range for the data you wish to view.
- Member selection filter – choose which members data you need to view.
- Time worked – shows the total tracked time based on the date range.
- Productivity – the percentage of productive apps and URLs over total time spent.
- Example: An employee worked for 10 hours. Of that time, 30 minutes was added manually, the user was on unproductive apps/URLs for a total of 45 minutes. Their productivity score would be 87%, with this breakdown:
- 87% Productive
- 8% Unproductive
- 5% Unclassified
- Example: An employee worked for 10 hours. Of that time, 30 minutes was added manually, the user was on unproductive apps/URLs for a total of 45 minutes. Their productivity score would be 87%, with this breakdown:
- Activity – the percentage of keyboard/mouse activity against total time tracked.
- To-dos completed – number of tasks completed within the selected date range.
- Achievements – achievement badges earned within the date range.
Utilization
- Productivity – the percentage of productive apps and URLs over total time spent.
- Example: An employee worked for 10 hours. Of that time, 30 minutes was added manually, the user was on unproductive apps/URLs for a total of 45 minutes. Their productivity score would be 87%, with this breakdown:
- 87% Productive
- 8% Unproductive
- 5% Unclassified
- Example: An employee worked for 10 hours. Of that time, 30 minutes was added manually, the user was on unproductive apps/URLs for a total of 45 minutes. Their productivity score would be 87%, with this breakdown:
- Top Apps & URLs – top used applications and URLs within the timeframe specified.
- Activity – the percentage of keyboard/mouse activity against total time tracked.
Leaderboard
The leaderboard shows a descending list of team members based on productivity. It also shows each user’s total time tracked, activity, productivity and any achievements they have earned.
Projects
The projects section shows a list in descending order of each project based on time tracked. It also shows the total time tracked to each project and the activity level for each project.
Tasks
The tasks section shows the top tasks based on time tracked. It also shows the activity percentage for each task.
Insights settings
To access the insights settings page, navigate to Settings & Policies > Features. Alternatively you can navigate to the Insights menu on your sidebar then click Settings.
Most Common
The most common tab shows a default list of productive and unproductive sites and applications. Toggle the Classification setting to define whether a webpage or an app is productive/unproductive.
Recent
The Recent tab shows you a list of recently used or visited applications and websites.
All Unproductive
The All Unproductive tab shows you all the applications and websites classified as unproductive.