Software:WebWork Time Tracker

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Short description: Time Tracking Software


WebWork Time Tracker is a Time Tracking and Employee Monitoring software that monitors attendance, activity levels, app and website usage and productivity levels.[1] [2]

It was launched by an Armenian-based IT company Evistep Enterprise and is one of their biggest projects. It offers a list of features to track and analyze employees’ work in real-time.[3]

As a time tracker it tracks time spent on work and creates reports based on it. As an employee monitoring tool, it enables managers to see what their team members are doing, what websites they are visiting, what apps they are using and on which tasks and projects they are working. The tracker captures activity levels based on keyboard and mouse usage, takes random screenshots using 4 screenshot modes and creates reports on timesheet, timeline, attendance, productivity, etc. The software can also be integrated with 10+ other tools.[4]

History

WebWork Time Tracker was founded in 2015 by Armenian entrepreneur Vahagn Sargsyan and his team. They first created the tracker to improve their own team and project management but later released the tool to a bigger audience.[5]

The first version of WebWork Time Tracker was launched in 2016 and was free for small teams.

In 2016  WebWork Time Tracker was released for Windows, Mac and Linux.

In 2020 the mobile version of the software was released for iOS and Android. In the same year, the tracker introduced the feature of attendance tracking and a Chrome Extension.

In April, 2022 WebWork launched its built-in Messenger to keep communication inside the tracker.

By the end of 2021 WebWork reached 50K+ active users, 30K Windows,  8K Mac and 12K Linux users. The number of mobile app users for the same period was 8.5K for Android and 5.6K for iOS.[6]

Software and Features

WebWork has features for time tracking, employee monitoring, project managing and communicating.[7][8]

Integrations

It is possible to integrate different tools with WebWork Time Tracker. The time spent in integrated tools can also be tracked through WebWork Chrome Extension. The tools that can be integrated with WebWork include Zapier[9], Asana, GitHub, Jira Software, Teamwork, Zoho Projects, Bitbucket, Wrike, Trello, Todoist and Clickup.

Technology

The tracker’s desktop app is based on Qt C++ (versions including and after 5.11.5). The tracker uses Sqlite 3 for storing temporary data. It also uses Objective-C to work with the MacOS API. The previous versions were using Java, Java FX, Electron JS, since 2019 and QT, since 2021.

The mobile app is built with React Native.

The frontend of WebWork’s web version works on Javascript (React.js), while the main backend block uses Laravel, with some services using Node JS (Express JS). It also uses HTML5 features (such as offline storage) and websockets. The database operates on MYSQL, Redis and Amazon S3 storage.

Operations

WebWork Time Tracker is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates a second office in Yerevan, Armenia.

Corporate Identity

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Values of the company

Client orientation

Users of WebWork have the opportunity to improve the tracker by sending their recommendations through the user requests program.

Accountability

In the period between March 2020-March 2021 WebWork experienced a 567% increase in the number of active users, compared to the same period a year before. The number of registered users also increased by 542%.

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  2. "Научные труды северо-западного института управления РАНХиГС" (13nd ed.). Saint Peterburg: Российская Академия Народного Хозяйства и Государственной Службы. 2022. pp. 131-132. 
  3. "WebWork | Comparison tables - SocialCompare". https://socialcompare.com/en/member/webwork-3tj5z95i. 
  4. "WebWork Reviews 2022" (in en). https://www.serchen.com/company/webwork/. 
  5. Filipenko, Anastasia (2022-09-24). "The Journey of WebWork Time Tracker and Its Founders" (in en-US). https://shopgiejo.com/the-journey-of-webwork-time-tracker-and-its-founders/. 
  6. "Armenian software company reforming work management for remote teams". https://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/300184/. 
  7. https://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/webwork-time-tracker-releases-a-built-in-messenger/
  8. "Time Tracking Software For All Types of Businesses" (in en). https://www.webwork-tracker.com/features. 
  9. Zapier. "WebWork Time Tracker Integrations | Connect Your Apps with Zapier" (in en). https://zapier.com/apps/webwork-time-tracker/integrations.