FeaturesL.02Activity MonitoringIdle Detection
Separate real work from idle time.
Automatic idle detection, accurate timesheets, and workforce utilization insights — data you can trust.
- Workforce
- Beta
- Enterprise
- Coming soon
- Rymot Local
- Available
- Signal
- Keyboard & mouse activity
- Threshold
- Configurable per team
- Resume
- Instant, automatic
- Employee view
- Their own idle record
01How it works
Signal → Inactivity → Mark → Resume
01
Monitor activity signals
Keyboard, mouse, and application activity are monitored continuously in the background.
02
Detect inactivity
No input for a configurable threshold triggers idle detection automatically.
03
Mark idle period
The idle period is logged separately — excluded from active and productive time.
04
Resume active tracking
The moment activity returns, tracking resumes instantly — no manual restart.
02Honest totals
Idle time never becomes worked time.
Idle stretches are excluded from active and productive totals by default — and the employee sees exactly the same record.
WorkforceMy dayEmma Roberts
My day
Design · Tue 14 Oct
Tracked
6h 12m
Idle excluded
Focus
3h 40m
3 blocks
Score
81
Team avg 84
Timeline
Apps & sites
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every 10 min03Capabilities
Data you can actually trust
- 01Automatic Idle DetectionIdentify inactive periods automatically — no manual timer stops, no self-reporting.
- 02Accurate TimesheetsPrevent inflated work hours — idle time is automatically excluded from logged totals.
- 03Smart Activity RecoveryResume tracking instantly the moment activity returns — no manual restart needed.
- 04Productivity IntegrityImprove reporting accuracy across the board — every metric built on real activity, not assumptions.
- 05Team Idle AnalysisIdentify idle patterns across departments — not to blame, but to understand and improve.
- 06Workforce EfficiencyUnderstand utilization trends across active, focus, meeting, and idle time — the full picture.
04Idle metrics
Idle metrics
Longest Idle Period
The single longest stretch of inactivity today.
Average Idle Event
The typical length of an idle period across the day.
Idle Frequency
How many separate idle events occurred today.
Idle Trend
Idle time trending down or up compared to last week.
05What it fixes
Why timesheets go wrong
- Inflated timesheetsTime logged while a computer sat untouched still counts as "worked" without idle detection.
- Forgotten breaksA break that's never logged just becomes untracked idle time nobody accounts for.
- False productivity metricsProductivity scores built on inflated hours are wrong from the start.
- Manual correctionsSomeone has to notice and fix inflated hours by hand, every single pay period.
- Unreliable reportsIf the underlying hours are wrong, every report built on top of them is wrong too.
07Questions
Asked often.
How is idle time detected?
Rymot monitors keyboard and mouse activity. When there's no input for a configurable threshold, the period is automatically marked as idle.
Can idle thresholds be configured?
Yes. The inactivity threshold that triggers idle detection is configurable per team or role, so it matches how different roles actually work.
Can employees see idle records?
Yes. Every employee can see their own idle events and totals — the same data visible to their manager.
Does idle time affect payroll?
Idle time is excluded from active and productive totals by default, so payroll reports reflect time actually worked. This behavior is configurable per policy.
How accurate is detection?
Idle detection runs continuously at minute-level precision and is accurate to roughly 99% under normal usage patterns.