Employee Activity Monitoring

Understand How Work
Actually Gets Done

Pulse Workforce Insights monitors application usage, keyboard activity, and device activity across your team's computers — giving you clear visibility into where time is being spent.

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How It Works

Visibility Without Micromanagement

Install the Monitor

A lightweight agent is installed on each monitored device. It runs in the background and reports activity data to your Pulse dashboard.

Activity Is Recorded

Application usage, active window time, keyboard activity, and mouse movement are tracked and aggregated by device and time period.

Review Your Dashboard

See productivity trends, most-used applications, active vs. idle time, and per-device summaries — all in one place.

See It In Action

Activity Across Your Entire Team

Multi-User Activity Graph

Pulse user activity graph showing multiple employees' activity levels throughout the day

Color-coded activity lines per employee — see who is active, when, and for how long throughout the workday.

Key Benefits

What You Can Learn

Productivity Trends

Identify peak productivity hours and days. Understand when your team is most effective and schedule accordingly.

Application Usage

See which applications are being used and for how long. Discover tool adoption, underutilization, and unauthorized software.

Remote Team Oversight

Maintain visibility over remote and hybrid teams without constant check-ins. Objective data replaces guesswork.

Legal Obligations & Responsible Use

Employee monitoring is legal in most jurisdictions when conducted transparently and for legitimate business purposes, but the specific requirements vary by country, state, and employment type. As the account administrator, you are solely responsible for complying with all applicable laws before deploying monitoring in your organization.

Notify employees in advance. Most U.S. states and many countries require that employees be informed of monitoring before it begins. A written policy in your employee handbook or a signed acknowledgment is standard practice.

Monitor company-owned devices only. Monitoring personal devices — even when used for work — carries significantly higher legal risk and may require explicit consent beyond standard employment agreements.

Define a legitimate business purpose. Monitoring for productivity, security, or compliance purposes is generally protected. Monitoring for punitive or retaliatory purposes is not.

Review state and local laws. States including Connecticut, Delaware, and New York have specific employee monitoring notice laws. The EU, UK, and Canada have additional GDPR/PIPEDA obligations for remote workers in those regions.

Pulse provides the monitoring tools — compliance with applicable employment, privacy, and labor law is your responsibility. We recommend consulting with an employment attorney before deploying monitoring in any new jurisdiction. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for platform-level obligations.

Pricing

$3.00 per Device per Month

Only active monitored devices are billed. Add or remove devices at any time.

$3.00 / device / month

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FAQ

Workforce Insights Questions

The Pulse monitoring agent supports Windows devices. The dashboard is web-based and accessible from any modern browser.

Yes — and in many jurisdictions, telling employees is not just recommended, it's legally required. Most U.S. states and countries require advance notice before workplace monitoring begins. We strongly recommend a written monitoring policy in your employee handbook and a signed acknowledgment from each monitored employee. Pulse is designed for authorized, transparent workplace monitoring by account administrators only.

A device is counted as active when it has the Pulse monitoring agent installed and has reported activity during the billing period. Devices that are deactivated are not billed.