75% of Australian employees don’t feel engaged at work.
Understand How Your Team Actually Works
Data driven insights into application usage, focus time, idle patterns, and work habits. Make informed decisions about staffing, tools, and workflow, without guesswork.
The Productivity Problem Is Costing Australia Billions
Australian labour productivity has stagnated for a decade. Disengagement costs the economy $211 billion a year. Organisations pay for software nobody uses, while managers make staffing decisions based on gut feel instead of data. The organisations that measure, improve.
$211B
cost of employee disengagement to Australia annually
$68B
lost to absenteeism and presenteeism in Australian workplaces
$33B in absenteeism plus $35B in presenteeism. Employees present but not productive.
600hrs
lost per Australian employee per year to distractions
75 working days annually. Costing $27,585 per employee. 29% of an average salary.
You Can't Improve What You Can't Measure
Managing a team means making decisions with limited visibility. Which tools are actually being used? Are people focused or constantly context-switching? Is the team sized right for the workload? ActivityPulse gives you objective data to answer these questions.
No Visibility
Managers rely on self-reporting, gut feel, and meeting attendance to gauge productivity. None of these tell you what’s actually happening during work hours.
Wasted Spend
Your organisation pays for software nobody uses. 21% of applications are completely unused and 45% are underutilised. But without data, you can’t tell which ones.
Hidden Disengagement
75% of Australian employees aren’t engaged at work, costing $211 billion annually. Without objective activity data, presenteeism and disengagement go undetected until performance reviews.
“Employee disengagement is costing the Australian economy $211 billion per year. In Australia, 25% of employees are engaged, 64% are not engaged, and 11% are actively disengaged.”
“Australia’s labour productivity has returned to pre-pandemic levels. The last decade has seen productivity stagnate, with output per hour roughly where it was in December 2019.”
“Presenteeism costs Australian employers $35 billion a year. Employees who are physically present but working at significantly reduced capacity due to stress, illness, or exhaustion.”
“52.7% of purchased software licences sit idle. For mid-tier organisations with around 600 employees, average wastage amounts to about a million dollars a year.”
How ActivityPulse Measures Productivity
8 metrics across time analysis, engagement scoring, work patterns, and app classification combine into a daily per-user productivity score.
What You'll See
Application Usage
See which applications your team uses, for how long, and when. Identify the tools that drive productivity and the ones that don’t. Application names and publishers are automatically resolved from file metadata.
- Foreground focus time per app, per user, per day
- Application categories (Productive, Unproductive, Neutral) fully customisable per org
- Publisher and version metadata auto-resolved from executables
Focus Time & Input Engagement
Track foreground focus time per application. Distinguish between active work (keyboard and mouse input detected) and idle time. Understand when your team is most productive and when they’re disengaged.
- Keystroke and click counts per app (content never recorded)
- Input engagement scoring feeds into productivity metrics
- Idle session detection with configurable thresholds
Work Schedule Visibility
System events capture logon, logoff, lock, unlock, and startup times. See actual work hours without requiring employees to clock in and out. Identify after-hours activity and weekend work patterns.
- Actual start/end times derived from system events
- After-hours and weekend work flagged automatically
- Burnout risk scoring based on sustained overwork patterns
Productivity Intelligence Dashboard
Productivity scoring combines time-based analysis with input engagement metrics. Per-user daily scores with trend tracking across 9 interactive charts.
Productivity Trend
Daily scores over time with trend line
Time Breakdown
Productive, unproductive, and neutral time split
Top Users
Ranked by productivity percentage
Top Applications
By focus time, colour-coded by category
Top Domains
Browsing time classified by productivity
Engagement by App
Keystrokes per app, colour-coded
See the Full Picture at a Glance
Mon 8:47 AM
Logged on. Opened Outlook and Microsoft Teams
Logged on. Opened Outlook and Microsoft Teams
Mon 9:02 AM
2 hours 14 min focus time in Visual Studio Code
2 hours 14 min focus time in Visual Studio Code
Mon 11:16 AM
45 min browsing YouTube and Reddit (unproductive)
45 min browsing YouTube and Reddit (unproductive)
Mon 12:01 PM
Idle session: 52 minutes (lunch break)
Idle session: 52 minutes (lunch break)
Mon 12:53 PM
3 hours 20 min in Jira, Confluence, and Slack
3 hours 20 min in Jira, Confluence, and Slack
Mon 4:13 PM
Input engagement: 4,200 keystrokes across productive apps
Input engagement: 4,200 keystrokes across productive apps
Mon 5:31 PM
Logged off. Total active time: 7h 22m. Score: 74%
Logged off. Total active time: 7h 22m. Score: 74%
The Investigation Timeline traces a single user’s activity across every module in chronological order. Filter by 20+ event types. Export reports as branded PDF or DOCX.
Beyond Productivity: Wellbeing Intelligence
Productivity is only half the picture. ActivityPulse includes dedicated intelligence engines for burnout risk and retention risk, giving you early warning before you lose good people.
Burnout Risk Detection
Sustained after-hours activity, weekend work, excessive screen time, and declining idle breaks. Scored daily per user with configurable thresholds and automated alerts.
Retention Risk Scoring
Combines declining productivity trends, job search browsing, resume editing, negative AI prompt sentiment, and disengagement signals into a per-user risk score.
Automated Alerts
Configure rules to alert when burnout or retention risk scores exceed thresholds. Delivered via email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams within seconds. 41 pre-built templates available.
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“Presenteeism costs Australian employers $35 billion annually. Key drivers include workload exceeding capacity, lack of control over how work is performed, poor quality management, and unclear role expectations.”
Safe Work Australia
Productivity Insights Without Surveillance Culture
ActivityPulse is designed for visibility, not surveillance. The goal is to give managers the data they need to support their teams, not to spy on them.
No keystroke content logging
We count keystrokes. We don’t record what was typed.
We count keystrokes. We don’t record what was typed.
No email content reading
We track send/receive events, not message content.
We track send/receive events, not message content.
No continuous screen recording
Screenshots are point-in-time, not video.
No webcam or audio recording
We detect device usage. We don’t access cameras or microphones.
Built for Real Workforce Decisions
Software Licence Optimisation
Understand work patterns across locations. Are remote employees as engaged as in-office staff? Data replaces assumptions.
Retention Risk Scoring
See which tools are actually used and which are shelfware. Stop paying for licences nobody opens. Reclaim wasted SaaS spend.
Workforce Planning
Use real activity data to right-size teams. Identify capacity constraints before they become bottlenecks.
Onboarding & Training
Track new employee application adoption. See how quickly new hires reach productive patterns compared to established staff.
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“The last decade has seen productivity stagnate in Australia. Years of under-investment have stifled the equipment and process upgrades needed to deliver productivity increases.”
Parliament of Australia
Australia’s Flagging Productivity Growth, Parliamentary Library, 2025
Make Workforce Decisions Based on Data
See how your team actually works. Identify disengagement early. Reclaim wasted software spend. Support your people with evidence, not assumptions.
Workforce Intelligence.
The Pulse of Your Organisation.
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