The provision of departments to other users for monitoring has changed. All settings for previously provided departments remain the same, but starting today, departments will be provided according to the new rules.

Let’s first define the terms. We will name the “director” the user, who is providing departments, and the user accepting departments for observation will be called a manager.

1. Based on the principle that a subordinate can have only one boss, providing departments to one manager from two or more directors is not allowed. Actually, this is possible, but
   Continue reading article →

Meet the new version of the StaffCounter agent for Windows from February 1, 2022. The program has new settings and functions. For example, we have added the ability to stop recording outside business hours (scheduled), as well as a new experimental feature – monitoring mouse activity simulators.

What’s new:

New setting “Include mouse movers into idle time”

Mouse activity emulators are not new in the IT world. For years, unscrupulous workers have been using mouse activity emulators to hide their absence from the workplace or inactivity during work hours tracked by Microsoft Teams and time-tracking programs. But not all employers are willing to pay employees just for the fact that they have a cursor crawling across the screen. And since there are applications and hardware simulators that make the mouse “crawl”, there must be monitoring applications that will not take this activity into account. The new version of StaffCounter allows you to track the mouse activity emulator and include this time in the “Pause” section. Therefore, the absence of clicks, as well as the complete absence of activity on the keyboard, will not be counted as work.
Continue reading article →

In the life of every enterprise, there are moments when every minute counts. And then the leaders want to know what the employees are doing at this particular moment. The StaffCounter system provides a convenient tool – screenshots every minute or even more.

There is a field in the department settings
Continue reading article →

When you encrypt your profile on staffcoucnter.net all the reports in your mailbox will come encrypted. How to read them? They are unreadable!
Continue reading article →

In the “Reports” menu appeared a new feature of the StaffCounter server – the Screen View report. Here you can see the latest screenshots from all connected devices. You can also choose a department you need to explore.
Continue reading article →

The new version from version 1 February 2022 can record Internet connection status. When the connection appears it informs you in the log file.

Continue reading article →

We would like to announce a new version of the StaffCounter agent with new features that allow for better monitor the status of remote employees. Now StaffCounter agent is able to record the status of the Internet connection, differentiate between true idle time and mouse movers, and automatically suspend time recording out of the work hours periods.  

Continue reading article →

Today, after several months of testing, we are migrating version 2.0.2 for Linux from beta to production. It is now recommended for installation as the stable release for Ubuntu and Mint 20.

Download the latest StaffCounter for Linux >>

What’s in the new version:
Continue reading article →