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With remote work rising, companies use monitoring tools to track productivity — but these must comply with laws like ECPA, GDPR, and CCPA to protect employee privacy. Transparency, consent, and limiting data collection are essential. Excessive monitoring harms trust, morale, and can lead to legal penalties. Ethical, privacy-first analytics offer a better approach, balancing insights with respect for employee rights.

Executives want to know where their org falls on the spectrum – and they’re asking People Analytics to give them the numbers. What % of the organization is AI-ready? How much work is being augmented by AI? Have we made productivity gains?Putting a number to AI adoption and proficiency, however, is fraught with difficulty. In many organizations, AI tools aren’t fully standardized, so one person may prefer ChatGPT while another likes Claude. Even when companies have go-to AI tools in-place, the reporting from Google Gemini or Microsoft Copilot is limited – with minimal team or task-level breakdowns and no good way to export into a dashboard.

Today, we’re proud to announce version two of our Workplace Metrics Benchmark–a major step forward in the variety and depth of insights provided by our benchmark dataset. The new benchmark dataset is far larger and incorporates fully sanitized and aggregated data from millions of digital work accounts across several hundred thousand individuals.It also comes with a number of new features, including new work type profiles describing work habits for Software Engineers, Sales Teams and more.

Employee turnover is a major concern for businesses, affecting productivity, morale, and costs. This blog explores key reasons employees quit, including lack of career growth, low compensation, toxic workplace culture, poor management, and insufficient benefits. Employees today seek flexibility, professional development, and a healthy work-life balance, making these factors essential for retention.

How do you measure productivity? If your first instinct is to track hours worked, emails sent, or meetings attended—you’re not alone. But here’s the catch: none of these actually tell you whether real, meaningful work is getting done.I’ve seen teams meticulously track every minute of their day, thinking it would boost efficiency. Instead, they ended up more stressed, less creative, and ironically, less productive. So, how do you measure productivity the right way?This guide breaks down what truly matters when measuring productivity, the common mistakes to avoid, and the best strategies to track performance without micromanaging your team into burnout.

We all know the allure of diving deep into a dataset and generating some fascinating insight. But all too often, insights end up being interesting without actually being useful. For insights to deliver real value, they must drive action. Here’s a guide of best practices to help ensure your insights lead to impactful change.

We’re 3 years into this experiment and we’re seeing behemoths like Amazon giving up on the flex work dream. Your CEO is no doubt under pressure to defend a flex work model. So how do you go about evaluating whether flexible work is working for your org? In this post, we dive into the metrics you should use to score your organization's approach to flex work as you evaluate whether it's the right fit for your company going forward.

Employee monitoring is invasive, creepy and often ineffective. Learn how to boost productivity in your organization without sacrificing privacy or trust.