Remote Workforce Management Software Built for Visibility, Not Surveillance
Get clear visibility into how your remote and hybrid teams actually work, use insights to improve productivity, manage workload, protect company data, and manage distributed endpoints across all company devices- all in one platform. No keylogging, webcams, or GPS.
- Available in the cloud or on-premises.
- Track employee activity without being intrusive
- Block unproductive websites & apps
- Stay defensive under UK GDPR, PIPEDA, and US state notice laws
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Remote workforce management software, defined
A remote workforce management software gives employers full visibility & control into all activity on their company devices. It helps them track applications used, websites visited, and compare idle time with active time, while enforcing policies such as web filtering and USB device control.
Most importantly, it helps them answer three questions:
- Is the work getting done?
- Is company data staying secure?
- Can you prove both to an auditor or regulator?
CurrentWare answers all three from one console, without keystroke logging, webcam access, covert screen recording, or GPS tracking. That is a design choice, not a missing feature.
What a complete remote workforce management platform should cover:
01 | Visibility
Application and website activity, active versus idle time, and how workload is distributed across the team.
02 | Attendance
First logon, last logoff, session length, and break patterns, without asking employees to punch a clock.
03 | Control
Web and application policies, USB and peripheral restrictions, and instant access revocation during offboarding.
04 | Evidence
Retained activity logs, file transfer records, and scheduled reports to support HIPAA, ISO 27001, CMMC, and NIST reviews.
05 | Restraint
Configurable collection, data minimisation, and employee-facing dashboards that help the deployment stand up to legal review.
Three problems remote work created, and the numbers behind them
Productivity you can see
81%
of companies that implemented monitoring software reported an increase in employee productivity.
Time theft you can catch
52%
employers found an employee working a second job on the clock after deploying monitoring software.
Software spend you can recover
36%
of desktop software and 29% of SaaS spend is underutilised or wasted, according to Flexera’s State of ITAM 2023 report.
Everything your distributed team needs, available in one console
One agent, four modules, and seven capabilities. Choose a tab to see what each capability does and which module delivers it.
Activity & App Visibility
See how your remote workforce actually works
Remote work changes where work happens, but it shouldn’t leave you guessing about how work gets done. CurrentWare gives you clear, actionable visibility into application and website activity without relying on invasive monitoring. Turn everyday activity into meaningful patterns your managers can act on, not assumptions they have to make.
- See application and website usage by user, team, or department
- Classify activity as productive, unproductive, or neutral based on your own standards
- Monitor bandwidth consumption and search activity
- Give employees access to their own productivity dashboards
- Get real-time alerts for policy violations and unusual activity patterns
Attendance & Idle Time
Know when your remote team is working, without micromanaging
Remote attendance shouldn’t come down to whether someone appears online. CurrentWare turns logon, logoff, session, and idle-time data into a clearer picture of daily attendance and work patterns. Give managers the information they need to support flexible work while maintaining accountability.
- Track first logon, last logoff, and total session time each day
- Set configurable idle thresholds for different roles and work patterns
- Use Idle Exclusion to avoid unfairly flagging meeting-heavy employees
- Identify inactivity patterns that may indicate mouse jiggler use
- Compare remote and in-office attendance when evaluating hybrid policies
- Support flexible schedules without losing visibility or accountability
Workforce Analytics
Turn remote workforce data into smarter decisions
Monitoring is only the beginning. The real value comes from understanding what the data means.
CurrentWare helps you uncover productivity trends, workload imbalances, software waste, and workflow bottlenecks, so you can make better decisions about how your remote workforce operates.
- Analyze productivity trends by department, location, and time period
- Identify workload imbalances and potential early signs of burnout
- Find unused software licences and reduce unnecessary spending
- Spot app overuse, meeting fatigue, and excessive chat activity
- Automate reports for HR, compliance, and leadership
- Turn workforce activity into actionable operational insights
Web & App Control
Keep remote teams focused and your digital workplace safer
Remote employees face more distractions, and organizations face a broader digital attack surface. CurrentWare gives you the controls to manage web and application access across distributed endpoints. Set clear digital boundaries while giving teams the flexibility they need to work effectively.
- Block or allow websites by URL, category, or keyword
- Restrict applications, including unauthorized AI and file-sharing tools
- Apply different policies by team, department, or time of day
- Reduce distractions and minimize productivity losses
- Limit exposure to unsafe or non-compliant websites and applications
- Strengthen endpoint security with port and protocol controls
Data Loss Prevention
Protect company data wherever remote work happens
Your security perimeter doesn’t stop at the office. With employees working from home and across distributed locations, USB devices, cloud storage, and file transfers can create new paths for sensitive data to leave the organization. CurrentWare helps you control those endpoints and identify risky data movement before it becomes a bigger problem.
- Block, allow, or make USB storage and peripherals read-only
- Monitor file transfers to removable media and cloud destinations
- Allowlist approved encrypted drives by serial number
- Revoke device access immediately when employees leave the organization
- Alert on large or unusual transfers before sensitive data is lost
- Maintain visibility into file movement across remote endpoints
Deployment & Endpoints
Deploy quickly. Manage remote endpoints from one place.
Remote workforce management shouldn’t require a complicated infrastructure project. CurrentWare is designed to deploy through the tools your IT team already uses, giving you centralized visibility across distributed endpoints. Spend less time managing the platform and more time managing your workforce.
- Deploy through Active Directory Group Policy, RMM, or direct installation
- Manage remote endpoints without requiring an always-on VPN
- Cache activity on offline endpoints and synchronize when they reconnect
- Use role-based permissions to give managers access only to their teams
- Manage policies across individual users, computers, departments, or the entire workforce
- Automate workstation shutdowns to reduce energy waste and support ESG goals
See how remote employees actually work
Remote work removed the walls around the office. CurrentWare brings back the context without crossing privacy boundaries. Activity becomes something you can understand and act on, rather than something you have to guess about.
- Application and website usage by user, team, or department
- Productive, unproductive, and neutral classification that you control
- Bandwidth consumption and search term reporting
- Employees can access their own productivity dashboards
- Real-time alerts for policy breaches and unusual patterns
Security & Compliance
Stay audit-ready while keeping monitoring transparent
Remote workforce management shouldn’t come at the expense of privacy or compliance. CurrentWare combines continuous activity visibility with configurable controls, retention, and audit reporting. Get the evidence you need for compliance without turning your workforce management program into covert surveillance.
- Maintain continuous user activity logs with configurable retention
- Generate automated audit reports and maintain an operator audit trail
- Support compliance initiatives aligned with NIST 800-171, CMMC, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and Cyber Essentials
- Integrate with SAML and OIDC single sign-on, Active Directory, and SIEM platforms
- Forward security events through CEF
- Choose on-premises deployment when your data needs to remain within your infrastructure
How CurrentWare differs from typical remote workforce tools
Most remote workforce management tools compete on how much they can capture. CurrentWare focuses on how much you can defend. Here is the difference in plain terms.
| Capability | CurrentWare | Typical remote monitoring tools |
|---|---|---|
| Application and website activity tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Attendance, logon and idle time tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Keystroke logging | Never. Excluded by design | Commonly included |
| Webcam capture | Never. Excluded by design | Offered by several vendors |
| Continuous or stealth screen recording | Not used. Optional screenshots only, with policy controls | Often always-on |
| GPS and location tracking of employees | Not collected | Common, often marketed as geofencing |
| USB and peripheral device control | Yes, block, allow or read-only by device | Rarely included |
| Web filtering and application blocking | Yes, by URL, category, keyword and schedule | Limited or add-on |
| File transfer tracking to removable media | Yes | Rarely included |
| On-premises self-hosted deployment | Yes, full feature parity | Cloud only for most vendors |
| Regional data residency (North America, UK, EU) | Yes, on request for cloud | Varies, often US-only |
| Employee access to their own data | Yes, optional self-service dashboards | Sometimes |
| Works without an always-on VPN | Yes | Yes |
| SIEM forwarding over CEF | Yes, Splunk, QRadar, LogRhythm, Elastic | Enterprise tier only |
| Vendor headquarters | Toronto, Canada. 20+ years in endpoint software | Varies |
How CurrentWare helps teams work smarter, safer, and with greater clarity
Every remote team functions differently. CurrentWare delivers the same thing across all with clarity & without any compromise. License only the modules you need, or go for the full suite.
1. Turn assumptions into insights
For hands-on IT leaders, BrowseReporter turns speculation into evidence. It shows which applications support productive work and which ones are wasting time, then gives you the reports to prove it.
- Track productive versus idle time with thresholds you set
- Compare usage patterns across departments and locations
- Generate compliance-ready audit logs for HIPAA and ISO 27001Email scheduled reports to managers so they can stay informed without logging in
CurrentWare saved us a lot of time and money. If we didn’t have them we would’ve never known what was going on. I can’t thank all of you enough for this software.
Vincent Pecoreno,
Network Administrator, Viking Yachts
2. Create focused digital workspaces
Remote work can create more opportunities for distraction. BrowseControl lets teams set digital boundaries that protect focus and compliance without limiting employee autonomy.
- Block unsafe, non-compliant, or unsanctioned sites and applications
- Schedule access rules by time of day, team, or department
- Reduce downtime and cyber risk across distributed endpoints
- Control unapproved AI tools before company data ends up in them
Being able to identify negative browsing trends and put a stop to them within a couple of hours has meant that our employees are focused on the job almost all of the time. We have become an extremely efficient workforce.
Operations Management,
Shady Maple
3. Protect data at the edge
Small devices can create big risks. AccessPatrol helps prevent sensitive data from leaving through removable devices and peripherals.
- Enforce USB and peripheral restrictions by user, group, or device class
- Track file transfers in real time, including filename, size, and destination
- Revoke access instantly for departing employees
- Allowlist approved encrypted drives by serial number
We never have to worry when someone plugs in a device. AccessPatrol made our lives easy. We just set it, forget it, and it works.
Nicholas Scheetz,
IT Service Desk Supervisor, First Choice Health
Hospitals protect PHI. Financial firms safeguard client records. Manufacturers protect CAD files and IP. The control is the same, but the stakes are different.
4. Reduce waste automatically
When the CFO looks at the ledger, enPowerManager helps turn IT from a cost centre into a source of savings.
- Automate workstation shutdown and wake schedules
- Cut power waste by up to 30% across managed endpoints
- Track logon and logoff history for attendance reporting
- Support ESG reporting and cost reduction targets in the same report
CurrentWare has been nothing but supportive of us since we started. This is probably one of the best systems that we’ve ever invested in. Once we got CurrentWare installed it opened the door for remote work for us; we could control the equipment and make sure our people were being productive and safe.
Boston Centerless
One regional healthcare client saved $12,000 in a single quarter while also reducing its carbon footprint.
How customers benefitted with CurrentWare
Not adjectives. Numbers from organisations using CurrentWare across distributed and hybrid teams.
30%
less power wasted on idle workstations
Automated shutdown schedules removed overnight and weekend idle draw across managed endpoints. One regional healthcare client saved $12,000 in a single quarter.
enPowerManager
Healthcare, North America
2 hrs
from spotting a browsing trend to stopping it
Shady Maple moved from monthly guesswork to same-day intervention on unproductive browsing. The result, according to the organisation, was an extremely efficient workforce.
BrowseControl
Shady Maple, retail and hospitality
Set it, forget it
USB risk removed from the IT worry list
First Choice Health no longer has to treat every plugged-in device as an incident. Device policy is enforced automatically, and access is revoked as soon as someone leaves.
AccessPatrol
First Choice Health, healthcare
What each stakeholder gets out of it
Remote workforce software is rarely purchased by one person. Here is what each stakeholder gets from the platform.
For IT and Security
- Deploy in hours, not months
- Get endpoint control without enterprise bloat
- Reduce shadow IT surprises and helpdesk escalations
- Go into audits with the evidence already collected
For Finance
- Cut software licence waste and unnecessary spend
- Reduce breach exposure and compliance penalty risk
- Measure ROI in real numbers, not promises
- Improve revenue per employee across distributed teams
For HR
- Use objective data to support fair performance conversations
- Identify burnout and workload imbalance earlier
- Use privacy-first reporting that you can explain to employees
- Maintain a written monitoring policy that stands up in Ontario and the UK
For Leadership
- Get visibility without becoming a micromanager
- Maintain consistent operations across every location
- Scale headcount-light, with data behind hybrid work policy
- Lead with clarity instead of guesswork
Cloud or on-premises. Your call, not ours.
Most competitors in this category are cloud-only. If your data cannot leave your infrastructure, that can end the conversation. With CurrentWare, deployment is a configuration choice with full feature parity.
Cloud
Managed by CurrentWare. Live the same day.
- No server to provision, patch or back up
- Regional data residency available for North America, the UK and the EU
- Remote endpoints report without an always-on VPN
- Per-user subscription, scales up and down with headcount
- Best for distributed teams, agencies and growing SMBs
On-premises
Self-hosted on your server. Data never leaves.
- Monitoring data stays entirely inside your infrastructure
- Full feature parity with the cloud deployment
- Meets air-gapped and restricted-network requirements
- Perpetual licensing available, quoted by salesBest for government, defence supply chain and healthcare
A realistic first 30 days
Day 0
Install and connect
Deploy the CurrentWare Client through Group Policy, RMM, or direct installer. Most teams can finish the installation in under an hour.
Day 1
Publish the policy
Send employees the written monitoring policy. It is required in Ontario and expected elsewhere.
Week 1
Tune by team
Set idle thresholds, web and app rules, and USB permissions for each department instead of applying one blanket policy.
Day 30
Act on the data
Review the first full month, reclaim unused licences, rebalance workloads, and close your riskiest data paths.
Priced per user, quoted in USD, GBP, or CAD
There is no mandatory annual contract just to see the product, no forced sales call before you can try it, and no surprise per-feature upsells once you are in. Get the full suite, or only the module you need.
- CurrentWare Suite gives you all four modules at the lowest effective per-module cost.
- Individual modules are available if you only need activity tracking or device control.
- Volume discounts apply as seat counts increase, with education, non-profit, and government pricing available.
- On-premises licensing is perpetual and quoted directly by the sales team.
USD $ | GBP £ | CAD $ | EUR €
Built to Support Your Compliance Program
Discover how organizations use CurrentWare’s employee monitoring software to improve visibility, strengthen compliance efforts, and manage employee activity more effectively.
- CMMC Compliance →
CMMC
Endpoint Restriction to Protect CUI & FCI
- NIST 800-171 Compliance →
NIST 800-171/53
Protect Controlled Unclassified Information
- ISO 27001 Compliance →
ISO 27001
Increase the Maturity of Your ISO27K ISMS
- HIPAA Compliance →
HIPAA
HIPAA protects sensitive patient data
- Cyber Essentials Compliance →
Cyber Essentials
Critical Security Controls For Your Assessment
- GDPR Compliance →
GDPR
EU’s data protection and privacy law
- NERC CIP Compliance →
NERC CIP
Protect TCAs & BCSI From Insider Threats
- CIPA Compliance for Education →
CIPA for Education
Qualify for the FCC’s E-Rate Program
Solutions That Work Across Industries
Tailored controls that help you meet industry standards, boost efficiency, and protect sensitive data across remote and in-office teams.
Healthcare
HIPAA-ready controls to protect PHI with USB management and insider-threat visibility.
Government
Cybersecurity and policy enforcement aligned to NIST 800-171 and CMMC.
Legal Services
Keep client data protected, billable hours productive, and software costs in check.
Manufacturing
Productivity monitoring and internet visibility for both the shop floor and back office.
Financial Services
Enforce access policies and protect sensitive financial data with audit-ready trails.
Schools & Libraries
CIPA-compliant web filtering to qualify for E-Rate and keep students safe online.
Small Business Employee Productivity
Track unproductive web browsing and idle time to detect time-wasting
Managed Service Providers
Get multi-tenant visibility and device control that you can resell across your client base.
Pick & Plug Into Your Existing Stack
CurrentWare works alongside the identity, security, and directory tools you already use, including support for SAML, OIDC, and CEF standards. Cloud connectors are on the way.
- Tested & supported
- Generic standards (SAML, OIDC, CEF)
- On the roadmap (Cloud)
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Frequently asked
Frequently Asked Questions:
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Remote employee management software helps organizations monitor, support, and optimize the productivity of employees who work from home, hybrid, or distributed locations. It provides visibility into app usage, work patterns, and team workloads to improve efficiency and decision-making.
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Organizations use remote employee management software to understand how remote teams work, identify productivity barriers, prevent burnout, and ensure accountability. It enables managers to make data-driven decisions about workflows, staffing, hybrid policies, and performance improvement.
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CurrentWare collects data on application usage, website activity, productive time, idle time, and workload trends. A lightweight agent runs on employee devices and sends activity insights to centralized dashboards—without invasive tracking methods like keylogging, webcam access, or stealth recording.
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Remote employee management software focuses on productivity insights, workflow improvement, and operational efficiency. Surveillance tools use intrusive methods such as keystroke logging or secret screen capture. CurrentWare is privacy-respectful, transparent, and designed to support—not spy on—remote teams.
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Top metrics include:
- Productive vs unproductive time
- Active vs idle hours
- Application & website usage
- Workload balance and burnout risk
- Focus on time and task efficiency
- Productivity trends across remote vs. office staff
These insights help managers optimize performance and support teams more effectively.
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Yes. Ethical platforms like CurrentWare offer customizable privacy controls, data minimization options, and no keystroke logging. Companies can define what is tracked, anonymize data where needed, and use clear communication to maintain employee trust in remote or hybrid work environments.
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Yes, when used transparently and for legitimate business needs. Organizations should notify employees, follow local labor & privacy laws, and implement clear monitoring policies. CurrentWare supports compliance with GDPR, ISO standards and internal governance requirements.
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Key organizational benefits include:
- Improved productivity visibility
- Better workload distribution
- Reduced burnout risk
- Insights into software usage & license optimization
- Increased accountability in remote teams
- Stronger hybrid work policy decisions
- Enhanced security & compliance posture
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- Set goals for productivity, compliance, and workforce optimization
- Deploy the CurrentWare agent to remote and hybrid devices
- Communicate your monitoring policy to employees
- Review dashboards for productivity, app usage, and workload insights
- Use the data to coach teams, allocate resources, and refine workflows
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CurrentWare’s BrowseReporter tracks mouse/keyboard inactivity. With its “Idle Exclusion” feature, you can exclude certain apps (like meeting tools) from being classified as idle, leading to more accurate productivity data.
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Yes — through device control (e.g., USB restrictions), file transfer tracking, and web filtering. These features help you secure data on remote endpoints and reduce insider risk.
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Real‑time alerts help managers identify policy violations, schedule deviations, or suspicious inactivity (like “mouse jigglers”) as they happen, enabling quick intervention and more reliable workforce oversight.
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