Turn Activity Into a Fair Productivity Score
Focus classifies tracked apps and websites as productive, unproductive or neutral — using rules you define — and shows how active time is really being spent. New apps and sites start as neutral until you decide.
Productivity you can explain
No black box. Every score can be traced back to the rules and time behind it.
12 ready-made categories
Common apps and sites are already grouped into 12 categories such as development, design, communication and entertainment. Add custom categories for anything specific to your business.
Company rules, team overrides
Set rules once for the whole company, then override them for a team where a tool means something different. The same app can be core work for one team and a distraction for another.
Idle time excluded
Productivity % is based on active time only, so stepping away from the desk doesn't count against anyone.
Trends over time
Compare days and weeks to see whether productive time is growing, with productive, neutral and unproductive hours side by side.
Team and individual views
Look at the team as a whole or drill into a single person, within the visibility their role allows. A team's score is the average of its members.
Neutral by default
Every new app and website starts as neutral. Nothing is silently treated as unproductive before someone has made a rule for it.
Rules that stay manageable
You don't have to classify hundreds of apps up front. Start with what your team actually uses and refine as you go.
Suggestions list — the most used apps and sites that no rule covers yet, with the level their category suggests. Review, adjust and apply them in one go.
Bulk changes — select several apps or sites and set their level at once.
Subdomain inheritance — a subdomain follows its parent domain unless it has its own rule, so one rule for google.com also covers docs.google.com.
Rule changes apply to past reports too — change a rule and earlier days are shown with the new level; there is nothing to rebuild.
Website rules apply where the desktop app records browser addresses: on macOS in Chrome, Brave and Safari, and on Windows in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, Chromium, Arc and Firefox, if your company records website addresses. In other browsers, on Linux, or with that setting off, browser time follows the rule for the browser app.
How the score is calculated
Three steps from raw activity to numbers you can discuss openly with your team.
Track
The desktop client records active apps, idle periods and, where your settings allow, window titles and website addresses.
Classify
Active time is matched against your rules — the team's own rule first, then the company rule — and labelled productive, unproductive or neutral. No matching rule means neutral.
Score
Two percentages come out of the same data: Productivity % and Effectiveness %, for each person and as the team's average.
Productivity % = productive time ÷ active (non-idle) time.
Example: 6 productive hours out of 7.5 active hours is 80%. It shows how active time was spent.
Effectiveness % = productive time ÷ the daily minimum hours from your working hours.
Example: 6 productive hours against an 8-hour minimum is 75%. Days off have no target, and the value can go above 100%.
My Focus: everyone sees their own day
Every employee has a My Focus page built on the same numbers their manager sees, so there are no surprises in a one-to-one.
- A 5-minute productivity bar for the whole day
- Arrival and leave times, with a late arrival shown in red against your working hours
- Top apps and sites, each with its level
- A weekly trend of productive hours and Effectiveness %
A signal, not a verdict
A productivity score describes how time was spent. It doesn't describe the value of the work — so Focus is designed to start conversations, not end them.
Context over numbers — a low score during onboarding, support rotation or planning week is expected, not a problem.
Transparent rules — everyone can open the company and team productivity rules, so no level is set behind anyone's back.
Details stay personal — window titles and full URLs are only shown per person, and titles only within the retention period. Team views show apps, domains and hosts: the live Team view, updated about every minute, shows the app and website (host) each person is on, and the dashboard and Apps & URLs report list domains and hosts for the team.
Decisions stay human — use the score alongside delivery, quality and feedback, never as the only input.
Illustrative only. A category only suggests a level; your organisation decides how each app and site is scored.
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