Time & Attendance
Track how working hours begin, progress and end.
- Punch in/out
- Breaks
- Idle time
DeskWatch is a Workforce Productivity & Analytics Platform that gives businesses clear visibility into working time, attendance, activity, websites, applications, screens and productivity patterns from one centralized platform.
Understand how workdays unfold, identify productivity gaps, verify activity and make better workforce decisions using data instead of assumptions.
Explore Features ↓Built for modern distributed and office-based teams.
Work no longer happens only inside one office. Employees work remotely, from offices, across multiple time zones and through dozens of websites, applications, meetings and digital systems.
For managers, that creates a visibility problem. You know employees are logged in. But do you know:
DeskWatch brings these signals together so businesses can understand the workday without depending on fragmented reports, manual attendance sheets or constant employee check-ins.
DeskWatch is an employee productivity and workforce productivity platform by Bharat Payroll, a Pranathi Business Services product designed to help organizations understand how working time and digital activity are being used. It combines employee time tracking, attendance visibility, activity monitoring, website and application usage, screenshots, user activity timelines, productivity analytics and workforce reporting in one system.
Instead of giving managers another collection of disconnected reports, DeskWatch turns everyday work activity into structured information they can use to improve accountability, workforce planning and operational performance.
Understand attendance, active time, idle time, connectivity and availability.
See which websites and applications employees use throughout the workday.
Use screenshots, activity timelines and user action videos where additional verification is required.
Review individual, team and organizational productivity patterns.
Use clearer data when managing teams, software usage, working arrangements and operational processes.
DeskWatch collects configured workforce activity signals throughout the working day, including time, attendance, availability, application usage, website usage, idle periods and supported screen activity.
Activity can be structured around employees, teams, departments, managers and organizational groups.
Dashboards, daily summaries, timelines and detailed reports transform raw activity into information managers can understand.
Use those insights to investigate productivity gaps, improve accountability, review software utilization and make better workforce decisions.
See attendance, activity, applications, screens and productivity from one workforce platform.
DeskWatch brings the most important workforce visibility capabilities into one connected platform.
Track how working hours begin, progress and end.
Understand active time, idle periods, online status and digital behavior.
See where employees spend their digital working time.
Add visual context through screenshots and activity recordings.
Turn employee activity into individual and team productivity insights.
Compare teams, locations, working arrangements and software usage.
Stop waiting for end-of-day reports to understand what is happening. The DeskWatch Team Productivity Dashboard gives managers a centralized view of workforce activity and productivity information.
Use real-time workforce visibility to understand which employees are active, inactive, connected or unavailable while maintaining a broader picture of team productivity.
Knowing that somebody was scheduled to work is not the same as knowing how their workday actually happened. DeskWatch combines attendance information with activity data to create a clearer picture of working hours.
Track biometric punch-in and punch-out records together with active and inactive working periods.
Monitor employee break durations and maintain more accurate work-hour records.
Automatically calculate idle periods to separate inactive time from active working hours.
Identify prolonged inactivity and review inactivity patterns through dedicated reporting.
See when employees come online, go offline and become available during working hours.
Automatically convert activity and report times for distributed teams working across different locations.
Replace assumptions about attendance with structured information about when work starts, when interruptions occur and how working hours are actually used.
Modern employees can use dozens of applications and websites every day. DeskWatch helps businesses understand which digital tools occupy the workday and how frequently those tools are being used.
Identify the websites most frequently accessed across your workforce.
Analyse the websites and desktop applications employees use throughout their working hours.
Understand how digital activity changes between individuals, teams and departments.
Combine usage visibility with Software Cost Insights to identify opportunities to review underused software and optimize licensing decisions.
See the digital activity behind the working hours.
See Activity Monitoring in Action →Shown as examples of monitored applications, not as confirmed integrations.
Time and activity reports tell you what happened. Sometimes managers also need context. DeskWatch provides screen-monitoring capabilities that help authorized teams review work activity in greater detail.
Start with the measurable signals: active time, idle periods, applications and websites recorded across the working day.
Capture periodic screenshots during configured working periods for activity verification and review.
Control screenshot quality based on the level of visual detail and storage requirements your organization needs.
Review recorded user activity when a chronological visual record provides better context than individual screenshots.
Use screen visibility as part of a broader workforce-management process, not as a replacement for productivity analytics.
Isolated metrics can miss context. The DeskWatch User Timeline Report organizes employee activity chronologically, helping managers understand how different events, applications, activity periods and interruptions fit together throughout the day.
Instead of jumping between disconnected reports, review activity in sequence.
Not every mouse movement represents meaningful work.
Traditional activity tracking can be manipulated. Mouse jigglers, auto-clickers and similar tools can create artificial activity even when meaningful work is not taking place.
DeskWatch helps identify artificial mouse movements and automated clicking patterns that could create misleading productivity signals. That gives managers another layer of context when reviewing unusual activity.
The question is not simply was the computer active? The more useful question is does the activity pattern make sense?
Remote and distributed work depends heavily on reliable connectivity. DeskWatch Internet Connectivity Monitoring helps teams identify connection interruptions that can affect employee availability and working activity.
Combine connectivity information with Online / Offline Tracking to distinguish between employee inactivity, connectivity interruptions, offline periods and changes in availability. This gives managers additional operational context before drawing conclusions from activity data alone.
Collecting activity data has little value unless businesses can understand what it means. DeskWatch brings activity, attendance and usage data together through dashboards, reports and productivity insights.
View team-level productivity metrics and performance summaries from one place.
Understand productivity patterns at an individual employee level.
Analyse productivity trends, work patterns and performance signals in greater depth.
Move beyond raw activity counts to understand working behavior, efficiency and recurring patterns.
Give managers a concise view of each employee's daily activity and productivity.
DeskWatch gives managers the evidence needed to investigate those questions.
Meetings are work, but they can also consume a significant part of the working week. DeskWatch Meeting Insights helps organizations understand meeting duration, participation and the amount of time employees spend in virtual meetings.
Use meeting activity alongside broader productivity data to get a more accurate picture of how working time is distributed. Because productivity cannot be measured accurately when meeting time is ignored.
Hybrid work created a new question for business leaders: how does work actually differ between remote and office environments? DeskWatch Remote vs Office Tracking helps distinguish work location patterns so businesses can analyse workforce distribution and understand how activity differs between working arrangements.
Compare Patterns.
Understand Context.
Make Better Decisions.
Sample data. The objective is not to decide that one location is automatically better.
Businesses continue adding SaaS subscriptions, licenses and digital tools. But purchasing software does not mean employees are actually using it. DeskWatch Software Cost Insights combines software usage visibility with workforce activity information to help organizations identify opportunities to review software spending.
Sample data shown for illustration. Turn application visibility into cost visibility.
Different managers need different levels of visibility. DeskWatch provides administrative capabilities for organizing users, teams and reporting responsibilities.
Organize employees into teams, departments or other workforce groups for easier reporting and management.
Allow managers to access reporting for the teams or groups assigned to them.
Create, edit, assign and manage users who need access to the DeskWatch management panel.
Add multiple employees efficiently using CSV or Excel imports instead of creating accounts individually.
Whether the organization contains 20 employees or multiple departments, workforce data becomes more useful when it reflects the actual structure of the business.
Managers should not have to continuously watch a dashboard waiting for something unusual to happen. DeskWatch Real-Time Notifications can alert authorized users when configured events, activities or policy conditions require attention.
Use notifications to move employee monitoring from passive reporting toward faster operational awareness. Less dashboard watching. Faster awareness.
Illustrative examples. Notification types depend on your configuration.
DeskWatch is not designed simply to generate more activity data. The objective is to help organizations use workforce information to operate more effectively.
Understand how employees, teams and departments use the workday.
Give managers objective activity information instead of relying entirely on status updates and assumptions.
Use activity, inactivity and application patterns to identify areas that need investigation.
Maintain operational visibility across remote, office and multi-time-zone environments.
Identify prolonged inactivity and unusual activity patterns.
Connect application usage with software-cost decisions.
Give managers, operations leaders and business owners consistent information from which to evaluate processes and performance.
Bring time, attendance, activity, applications, screens and productivity into one connected view.
Maintain visibility into distributed teams without relying on constant calls, messages and manual status updates. Track availability, activity, websites, applications, screenshots and productivity patterns from a centralized platform.
Understand how active time, idle time, digital activity and work patterns contribute to individual and team productivity.
Combine punch-in/out records, breaks, inactivity and availability information to build a more complete picture of attendance.
Move beyond individual activity reports and analyse patterns across teams, departments and working arrangements.
Use timelines, screenshots, user action videos and activity data where additional work verification is required.
Compare remote and office activity patterns to better understand how different working arrangements operate.
Understand which applications employees use and identify opportunities to improve software spending.
Give team managers relevant visibility without requiring every manager to access the entire organization's workforce information.
Identify unusual patterns such as mouse jigglers or automated clickers that can distort traditional activity metrics.
Understand how working time, workforce activity and software resources are being used across the organization.
Identify workforce patterns, inactivity, activity distribution and operational issues that need attention.
Improve visibility into attendance, working patterns and distributed workforce activity.
Monitor the teams they are responsible for without manually collecting daily activity updates.
Use software utilization information to support better licensing and technology-spending decisions.
Manage workforce groups, panel users, integrations and access to workforce activity information.
DeskWatch is designed for organizations where employees perform a significant part of their work through computers, applications and online systems.
Improve visibility across large teams, distributed operations and multiple shifts.
Understand application usage, working patterns and distributed development teams.
Monitor time and activity across client-focused teams, projects and digital tools.
Improve visibility into how knowledge workers use their working day.
Understand availability, activity patterns, online status and time spent across digital support environments.
Monitor distributed recruiting teams, meeting activity and digital work patterns.
Support administrative and back-office workforce visibility where employee monitoring is appropriate and permitted.
Improve accountability and operational visibility across computer-based teams.
Create consistent workforce visibility regardless of where employees work.
Understand workforce activity across both remote and office environments.
Improve visibility across large teams, distributed operations and multiple shifts.
Understand application usage, working patterns and distributed development teams.
Monitor time and activity across client-focused teams, projects and digital tools.
Improve visibility into how knowledge workers use their working day.
Understand availability, activity patterns, online status and time spent across digital support environments.
Monitor distributed recruiting teams, meeting activity and digital work patterns.
Support administrative and back-office workforce visibility where employee monitoring is appropriate and permitted.
Improve accountability and operational visibility across computer-based teams.
Create consistent workforce visibility regardless of where employees work.
Understand workforce activity across both remote and office environments.
DeskWatch provides REST API documentation to support integration with third-party systems and business workflows. Use the API to build supported connections between DeskWatch and the applications your organization already uses.
Access documented endpoints for supported integration requirements.
Connect workforce information to internal tools and systems where supported by your implementation.
Endpoint names shown for illustration. Named integration partners will be listed once individually confirmed.
Distributed organizations should not have to manually convert every timestamp before understanding a report. DeskWatch supports multiple time zones with automatic time-zone conversion, helping global teams view activity and reporting in the appropriate local context.
Whether employees work from one city or across multiple countries, managers get a more consistent way to understand when work occurred.
DeskWatch's Dual Plan Purchase Option allows organizations to purchase and manage two subscription plans under a single account, providing additional flexibility when different employee groups require different plan configurations.
Combined with groups, manager access and panel-user management, DeskWatch can support a more structured approach to workforce administration.
DeskWatch provides upgraded support options for organizations that require faster issue resolution, priority assistance and additional technical support. Get help with product usage, troubleshooting and supported implementation requirements when needed.
Employee monitoring should support legitimate business objectives and be implemented responsibly. Organizations using DeskWatch should establish clear monitoring policies, define appropriate access to workforce information and comply with applicable employment, privacy and data-protection requirements.
Tell employees what workplace monitoring applies
Define the business reasons for monitoring
Limit access to authorized people
Configure monitoring according to operational needs
Review activity in context
Follow applicable local laws and company policies
A period of inactivity could represent a break, meeting, connectivity problem or legitimate offline work. DeskWatch gives businesses more context so managers can make better-informed decisions.
Basic time trackers tell you how long a timer ran. Basic monitoring tools show isolated activity. DeskWatch brings multiple layers of the workday together.
Understand when work begins, stops and pauses.
See active, inactive, online and offline patterns.
Understand websites and applications.
Use screenshots, timelines and user action videos where required.
Analyse individual and team working patterns.
Identify artificial activity signals such as mouse jigglers and automated clickers.
Compare teams, locations and working arrangements.
Understand software usage and potential cost optimization opportunities.
One Platform. A Clearer Picture of Work.
Create the workforce structure that reflects your teams and departments.
Add users individually or use bulk import for larger teams.
Choose the appropriate activity and monitoring settings for your organization.
DeskWatch begins organizing supported workday activity into dashboards and reports.
Use activity data, analytics and insights to improve workforce visibility and operational decision-making.
DeskWatch is employee monitoring and workforce productivity software that helps businesses understand employee working time, attendance, digital activity, websites, applications, screen activity and productivity patterns from one centralized platform.
Employee monitoring software helps organizations collect and analyse permitted workplace activity such as working hours, active and idle periods, website usage, application activity, attendance and other digital work signals. Businesses use this information to improve workforce visibility, accountability, productivity analysis and operational decision-making.
DeskWatch gives managers clearer information about how working time is used. Businesses can use it to understand attendance, inactivity, application usage, website activity, team productivity, remote and office working patterns, software utilization and unusual activity.
Yes. DeskWatch includes capabilities designed to support visibility across distributed workforces, including online/offline tracking, activity monitoring, website and application reporting, screenshots, productivity analytics and multi-time-zone support.
DeskWatch supports biometric punch-in and punch-out reporting, break tracking, idle-time calculation, inactive-user reporting and online/offline tracking to provide broader attendance and work-hour visibility.
Yes. DeskWatch provides reporting on frequently used websites and desktop applications so organizations can better understand how employees use digital tools throughout the workday.
Yes. DeskWatch supports periodic screenshot capture and configurable screenshot quality for organizations that require visual activity verification.
DeskWatch includes User Action Videos that can provide a recorded visual view of supported user activity for detailed review and auditing.
Yes. DeskWatch automatically calculates idle periods and provides inactive-user reporting to help managers understand interruptions and inactivity within recorded working hours.
DeskWatch includes Mouse Jiggler & Clicker Detection designed to identify artificial mouse movement or automated clicking patterns that could create misleading activity signals.
Yes. Remote vs Office Tracking helps organizations distinguish between remote and office-based activity so managers can analyse workforce distribution and working patterns.
DeskWatch Meeting Insights provides visibility into meeting duration, participation and time spent in supported virtual meetings.
DeskWatch Software Cost Insights helps organizations understand software usage and identify opportunities to review unused or underused software licenses.
Yes. DeskWatch supports multiple time zones with automatic time-zone conversion to help distributed teams interpret activity and reports in the appropriate local context.
DeskWatch supports group-based manager reporting so managers can be assigned visibility into the teams or groups they are responsible for.
Yes. DeskWatch provides REST API documentation for supported third-party integrations and custom workflows.
Employee-monitoring requirements vary by country, state, industry and employment context. Organizations should clearly communicate monitoring practices, establish appropriate workplace policies and obtain legal guidance where necessary before deploying employee-monitoring technology.
Bring time, attendance, activity, websites, applications, screen context and productivity insights together with DeskWatch.
Give managers the workforce visibility they need to understand what is happening, identify what needs attention and make better operational decisions.
See the Workday Clearly. Improve What Happens Next.
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