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Software metering is a critical part of software asset management (SAM) that helps businesses understand, control, and optimize how software applications are used across their organization. Whether you're trying to cut costs, stay audit-ready, or improve software ROI, software metering provides the visibility you need. Software metering is the process of tracking and analyzing software usage on individual devices and across a network.

Implementing productivity visibility tools often uncovers eye-opening insights that traditional time tracking fails to surface. Here’s what professional services leaders are learning—and how they’re acting on it. The Real Cost of Underused Tools What you see: Software licenses sitting idle—even as renewal and susbscription costs mount, unchecked. Roughly 40% of SaaS licenses go unutilized in many organizations.

CurrentWare version 11.0.0 is here! CurrentWare 11.0.0 introduces powerful new enhancements designed to provide more insights into employee work trends, improve security, user management, and system performance. In this update, we’re rolling out Single Sign-On (SSO) integration, reporting trend improvements, a secondary client database, new application productivity grading, and much more.

Looking for software to monitor employee computer activity? This list of the best employee monitoring software for 2025 will help you pick the optimal employee monitoring solution for your business.

Want to block distracting websites, monitor internet use, and keep your network secure against web-based threats? This list of the best internet filtering software covers website blocking solutions that are suitable for businesses, parental control, Mac users, and more.

Absenteeism—being absent from work without a valid reason—is a chronic problem for U.S. employers, conservatively costing $3,600 per hourly employee per year, and $2,650 per salaried employee per year. Based on this, a company of 5,000 hourly employees will lose over $18 million per year without a strong absence policy. But being physically present isn’t always the best thing for overall productivity.

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Running a bit late? Overslept or got caught in traffic? It happens to the best of us. In fact, over 1 in 4 workers (29%) admit to showing up to work late at least once a month. While the occasional late start is understandable, chronic absenteeism and tardiness significantly drain productivity—The CDC estimates that absenteeism costs U.S. employers $225.8 billion annually, or $1,685 per employee! In this article, we’ll explore how to develop a reasonable attendance policy.

Employee expectations are behavior, performance, and outcomes employers require from their workforce. They provide clarity and direction, ensuring the organization achieves shared business goals. Without outlining (and monitoring) these expectations, employees won’t be clear on their roles or how they contribute to the bigger picture. They may become disengaged, lose productivity, or leave, which hurts any business.

By now, you may have heard that the US banking giant Wells Fargo has fired some employees following claims that they were faking keyboard activity to fool the company into thinking they were working when they were not. This has left many managers to wonder—Are my employees faking their computer activity? Employee monitoring software is crucial in tracking productivity and ensuring accountability in the modern workplace.