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by BeFree

Solution

Time tracking software for remote teams

Distributed teams do not fail because people are lazy. They fail because managers lose the informal signals an office gives for free, and overcorrect with check-ins nobody enjoys. BeActive replaces the guesswork with a shared, visible record of the working day.

Team day · Tue 12 Aug
A. Nguyen
R. Sharma
M. Okafor
J. Callahan
S. Patel
Active on system Idle In meetings Away / off system

The problem

What usually goes wrong

If none of these sound familiar, you probably do not need this product — and we would rather say that than sell you one.

You cannot tell busy from stuck

Without a shared picture of the day, a struggling new hire and an overloaded senior look identical on Slack.

Time zones hide the problem

When half the team is asleep during your day, coverage gaps only surface when a customer finds them.

Check-ins fill the vacuum

Managers compensate with status meetings, which cost the exact focus time they were worried about.

The outcome

What changes once you can see the day

Not "productivity goes up" — that is a claim nobody can substantiate. These are the specific things teams like yours report being able to do that they could not before.

  • Coverage gaps visible before customers find them
  • Fewer status meetings, because the status is already visible
  • Onboarding problems caught in week one, not month three
  • One consistent standard across every time zone
  • Sydney
  • Manila
  • Auckland
  • Bengaluru
Teams across time zones, measured on the same basis. Markers are regions we operate in, not customer locations.
We cut our daily stand-ups to twice a week. The dashboard already answered the question we were holding the meeting to ask.
Operations Lead
Distributed support team, 40 people

Quoted from an anonymised deployment. We do not publish named references without written permission.

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Questions we get from teams like yours

Will this feel like surveillance to a remote team?

That depends entirely on how it is introduced, which is why every employee gets the same dashboard their manager sees and the agent shows a visible tracking indicator. Teams that announce it, explain the why, and share the data broadly report it as a non-event.

Does it work on personal devices?

It can, but we generally advise against it. Tracking can be limited to working hours, and a private mode excludes defined periods entirely.

How do you handle staff across many countries?

Shifts, holidays and time zones are configured per team or site, and data residency options let you keep records in a specific region.

See where your team’s day actually goes

Book a 20-minute walkthrough with a real person. We will use your team structure, not a canned demo dataset.

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