Your employees may be using their own personal devices for work and they may be using company owned devices to do their jobs. When setting up new employees/users and their devices on the Insightful app, you need to mark whether they are using Company and Personal computers:
The setup of Insightful app is different for these two options. It's crucial to understand these differences so that you can make the choice that fits your organization, stay compliant and take advantage of the features that each version offers. The differences and benefits of both options are detailed in this article.
Personal Computers
This Insightful app setup for Personal devices is designed to protect employee privacy. It gives them autonomy over installing/uninstalling Insightful, as well as the time during which the app will tracks their activities (Clock-In/Clock-Out). This option should be used if an employee is working on a device that their employer does not own.
Insightful desktop app will always be visible to the user.
Insightful will only track time and activities when the user manually clocks-in/out and never after working hours or when they're on break.
Available Attendance & Tracking Modes:
Setup & Activation
Employees are added via an email invitation that contains a link for them to create their username and password, which are going to be used later as identifications for the login into the Insightful desktop app (a.k.a. Insightful Agent).
Company Computers
When your Employees are using company owned devices for work, this is the recommended mode to install. It enables the use of more than just Manual and Project based Time and Attendance Tracking scenarios:
Unlimited/Automatic tracking,
Fixed tracking - track during fixed working hours,
Network Based tracking - track when computer is connected to a specific network,
These are Automatic Time and Attendance tracking scenarios and they don't require your employees to manually clock in and out as they automate the tracking, giving the organization's Admins control over it and ensuring that it aligns with the company’s requirements.
The Company Computer option also enables additional options such as Stealth Mode.
Automatic registration of Employees on Company computers
When each user logs onto a company computer for the first time Insightful will register them as an Employee. This enables Insightful to properly register activities of different local users of the same device and they can all use the application as intended. For more information please review this article.
Setup & Activation
Employees/Devices are added automatically after the installer is distributed and installed on their computers. The first computer activity after a successful installation will register and show up on Admin dashboards.
No Sign in is required. Users are registered automatically with their local user & device ID
Silent install (without employee distraction), RDS and Terminal Server installation and usage is possible.
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