Productivity tracking for remote teams, without watching screens
When a team works remotely, managers lose the cues an office gives them, and the reflex is to install software that watches screens. Tickin starts from the work record instead: hours worked against required hours, late starts, breaks, overtime and, on the Scale plan, where project time goes. Managers read it in Slack or on the web. Monitoring exists, but it is optional, opt-in and off until an admin switches it on.
Insights from the working day
Everyone clocks in from Slack, the browser or the desktop app (Microsoft Teams on the Scale plan). That record becomes the numbers a remote manager needs: hours against target, who started late, breaks taken and overtime. It measures whether the agreed work hours happened, which is the question most remote teams actually have.
Ask Slack who is working right now
Managers can ask Tickin in Slack who is clocked in, who has not started and who is on leave or working from home, or open the live dashboard on the web. Channels can subscribe to a daily, weekly or monthly report, so the team's numbers arrive without anyone exporting a spreadsheet.
Where project time goes
On the Scale plan, people log time to projects and tasks, and leads see time by project, task and person. Productivity stops being a single score and becomes a picture of where the team's hours went.
Optional, opt-in monitoring you switch on
For teams that need it, the Desktop App add-on can record the active application, website domain and periodic screenshots. It needs both the add-on and an admin switching monitoring on, so buying the add-on does not start it. It never records keystroke content, breaks, idle time or admins, and every employee can see their own record.
Fair to the people it measures
Everyone sees their own hours, attendance and leave, and nobody sees a colleague's personal record. Introducing a productivity tool openly, with the same view for the person being measured, is what keeps remote trust intact.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you track productivity on a remote team without surveillance?
- Measure the work record rather than the screen: hours worked against agreed hours, attendance, breaks, overtime and time on projects. Tickin builds those numbers from the clock-in your team already uses in Slack or the web.
- Does Tickin take screenshots of remote employees?
- Only if you choose to. Screenshots come with the optional Desktop App add-on and stay off until an admin turns monitoring on. Breaks, idle time and admins are never captured.
- Can remote employees see their own productivity data?
- Yes. Each person sees their own hours, attendance and leave, and their own monitoring record if monitoring is on.
- What does it cost?
- Tickin is free for up to 10 employees, then from $2 per employee a month. Projects are on Scale ($6), and the Desktop App add-on is $3 per seat a month on any paid plan.