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How to monitor employees working from home (without losing their trust)

November 2, 2026 Quick overview: To monitor employees working from home without losing their trust, set expectations and capture only the data each role needs. Then let employees see the same data you do. Time Doctor, used by 10,000+ distributed teams, shows the time, tasks, and tools behind each workday as it happens. This guide covers six steps: expectations, what to capture, one live view, results, check-ins, and well-being.

Paid Hours Vs Billed Hours: Where BPO Margin Quietly Leaks

Say an agent works a 9-hour shift. You pay for all 9 hours. But you can bill the client for only 7. Those 2 hours are a cost you never get back. Now picture that across every agent and every shift. That’s where BPO margin quietly leaks. Most teams don’t spot it until month-end, when the numbers don’t add up. It doesn’t have to stay hidden. With Workstatus, you can match each paid shift to the right client account as the work happens.

How to Discard Idle Time Automatically in Apploye

Learn how to discard idle time automatically in Apploye, so idle minutes come off tracked time without anyone having to review them. Go to Settings → Activity → Idle time, choose when time counts as idle, and pick Discard automatically. You can also give individual members their own idle settings.

Employee Monitoring Policy Template

An employee monitoring policy is a written document that tells employees what the employer monitors, why, where, how long the data is kept and who can see it. Four states — New York, Delaware, Connecticut and Maine — require notice before monitoring begins, each by a different mechanism, and two of those four laws changed during 2026. The template below is free to copy in three formats, and the sections marked with brackets are the ones you replace.

Idle Time Threshold in Flowace: Set It for New Users and Employees

Learn how to set the idle time threshold in Flowace, the number of minutes without keyboard or mouse activity before time is marked idle. You can set a default for new users in Default Settings, and change the value for one employee in Permissions, Desktop App. Once the threshold is reached, the whole inactive period is marked idle. Shorter pauses stay active. In this video: Chapters: Example setup used in this video.

How to Turn On Ignore Idle for Apps and Websites | Flowace

Learn how to turn on Ignore Idle in Flowace so time in calls, meetings and training is not marked as idle. Flowace marks time as idle when there is no keyboard or mouse activity for the time your admin sets. But sometimes you are still working, for example listening in a call or watching a training. Turn on Ignore Idle to keep tracking time even when you aren't moving your mouse or typing. In this video.

Idle Time Threshold in Flowace: Set It for New Users and Employees

Learn how to set the idle time threshold in Flowace, the number of minutes without keyboard or mouse activity before time is marked idle. You can set a default for new users in Default Settings, and change the value for one employee in Permissions, Desktop App. Once the threshold is reached, the whole inactive period is marked idle. Shorter pauses stay active. In this video: Chapters: Example setup used in this video.