Employee Monitoring Software: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

In the era of remote work, managers need insight into their teams' hours and productivity more than ever. Our tested, ranked picks help you find the best employee monitoring system for your business.

Because it's a cloud service, Controlio's employee monitoring solution is well-priced and scalable. It's also capable with the ability to track every aspect of an employee's activities with an eye towards productivity and potential threats.

StaffCop Enterprise is an thorough employee monitoring solution with a rich selection of tools. It enables powerful surveillance, data gathering and reporting, though it still requires on-premises installation.

VeriClock excels as time tracking solution for remote workers. Affordable pricing and a reliable mobile app make it a solid choice for SMBs.

Hubstaff excels at both time tracking and employee monitoring. To round out the platform, it also adds project management and task tracking functionality for managers as well as their teams.

DeskTime Pro’s stellar time tracking features make it viable for SMBs who also need basic employee monitoring. Calendar and invoicing features add a lot of value to a platform that's also easy to set up and use.

Attractive pricing and an efficient user interface make ActivTrak a solid employee monitoring and analytics tool that's squarely focused on worker productivity. Improved capabilities around remote workers make this a good tool to watch during the COVID-19 pandemic.

With an improved user interface and a gamut of employee productivity monitoring features, InterGuard converts data into useful insights and has a host of proactive alerts for larger businesses, especially those now focused on managing a remote workforce.

Insightful is an affordable and versatile employee monitoring application that offers SMBs many productivity and time-tracking tools, as well as basic reporting.

Teramind’s comprehensive tracking functionality can capture any user activity. These can range from screen recordings, live views of employee PCs, tracking emails, and keystrokes all the way to Zoom sessions, all of which earns it our Editors' Choice pick for employee monitoring.

You might call Time Doctor a jack of many trades as it covers several categories of features, including time tracking, project management, and employee monitoring. A decent price and a nicely designed interface mean it's a good idea to put on your evaluation list.

Work Examiner is no-nonsense employee monitoring software that's not lacking in any core data sources and tools. It has enough automation and customization ability to get the job done for on-premises oversight

Veriato is a veteran employee monitoring tool that offers comprehensive data gathering, great reporting, automated incident response, and powerful screen capture. It's an easy-to-use tool for enterprise-grade organizational oversight but its lack of a cloud-based option is a major knock against it.