Effortly / Desk
EFFORTLY DESK · DESKTOP & LAPTOP

The healthier
workday.

Effortly Desk runs quietly on every Windows and macOS device, turning everyday activity into useful focus and wellbeing insights. Employees understand how they work best, while managers catch workload imbalance and burnout risks early.

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FOR TEAM HEADS

See how the week actually flowed, no hand-wringing.

Focus hours, meeting load and break rhythm for every teammate, live. Spot the patterns that need a chat, quietly, in your own inbox.

focus median · 4h 32m meeting load · 26% break rhythm · healthy
Team focus · today
4h 32 m
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Today
FOR HR & PEOPLE OPS

Attendance & regularisation, no biometric needed.

Wake the laptop, you're checked in. Lock it for the day, you're out. Missed time regularises in three taps from the tray app.

auto check-ins · 128 / 142 regularised today · 6 biometric devices · 0
Today · checked in
128 / 142
✓ Aditi Rao 09:14 · MacBook
✓ Rohan Mehta 08:42 · ThinkPad
✓ Sara K. 09:31 · MacBook
FOR REMOTE TEAMS

Visibility for hybrid & work-from-home days.

No video calls to prove you're working. Effortly shows the day's rhythm so remote teammates get credit for the focus they actually put in.

remote teammates · 64 WFH days · 312 focus parity · +8%
Remote rhythm · this week
64 teammates
● 60 in rhythm · 2 to check in
FOR EMPLOYEES

A tray app that shows you your own day, first.

The same numbers the manager sees, hours, focus, break rhythm, land on your screen before anyone else's. Pause anytime, regularise anytime.

visible to you · always pause window · 5 / 15 / 30 min private windows · unlimited
Your day · today
5h 42 m
Focus apps3h 54m
Meetings1h 22m
Breaks28m
FEATURES

Live productivity, software usage, workload balance, focus targets, the desktop tray app, meeting load and an AI weekly digest — quietly tracking how the day actually flowed.

01 / 07Productivity Dashboard

One live view of how the day actually flows.

Active hours, focus time, idle and meeting time for every team — live, and filterable by department, role or hybrid status.

  • Active vs focus vs idle, liveThe real shape of the day, not a timesheet.
  • Filter by team, role or hybridSlice the company any way you manage it.
  • No spreadsheets, no exportsThe dashboard is the report.
Live · all teams
6.4h focus / daycompany avg
Design
Eng
Sales
Support
Focus Meeting Neutral Idle
02 / 07Software Usage

Every app, classified and costed.

Time in each application sorted into focus, neutral or off-policy — reclaim idle seats in one click while Effortly AI drafts the email.

  • Focus / neutral / off-policy splitEvery minute of app time, categorised.
  • Idle seats surfaced with costThe rupees attached to what nobody uses.
  • One-click reclaim, AI-draftedEffortly writes the owner email for you.
Software usage · this week
₹4.8L / yr recoverable38 idle seats
Figmafocus
VS Codefocus
Slackneutral
Adobe CCoff-policy
Idle seats this cycle38
03 / 07Wellbeing & Burnout

See who is quietly carrying too much.

Workload and overtime patterns surface the people heading for burnout — the signals stay private to managers, never a public scoreboard.

  • Sustained-overload patternsTrends over weeks, not a single bad day.
  • Private to managers, never publicNo leaderboards, no shaming.
  • Nudges before it becomes attritionA quiet flag while there is still time.
Workload signals · private
3 showing sustained overloadthis week
KPKaran P. · Engovertime 6.2h
RTRia T. · Supportweekend logins
04 / 07Targets & Attendance

Focus targets, attendance that regularises itself.

Set a focus target per role, count attendance from session start, and let missed time regularise in three taps.

  • Per-role daily focus targetsA goal that fits how each team works.
  • Attendance from session startCounted the moment work begins.
  • Regularise misses in three tapsFix a gap without an email chain.
Targets · today
82% of teams on target6.0h goal
82%
Focus goal
96%
Attendance
74%
On target
Regularised misses3 · resolved
05 / 07Desktop Tray Agent

A 12 MB agent that sits by the clock.

Quietly tucked next to the system clock, the employee sees their own day first — run it visible or invisible, your call.

  • 12 MB, Windows and macOSLight enough to forget it is there.
  • Employee sees their day firstTransparency before oversight.
  • Visible or invisible modeYou decide how present it is.
Desktop agent · running
Your dayEffortly · 12 MB
Focus time4h 20m
Meetings1h 10m
Active6h 50m
14:32
06 / 07Meeting Load

The true cost of the calendar.

Effortly reads the calendar alongside focus time to surface costly meetings, no-agenda invites and the slots worth reclaiming.

  • Calendar read against focus timeWhere meetings eat the deep work.
  • No-agenda invites flaggedThe ones nobody needed to attend.
  • Reclaimable slots surfacedHours handed back to the team.
Meeting density · this week
31% of the week in meetings6.5h reclaimable
MonTueWedThuFri 9a 11a 1p 3p 5p
No-agenda invites flagged18
07 / 07AI Weekly Digest

Last week in one page, every Monday 9am.

Three observations, three suggestions — Effortly AI condenses the week into a one-page brief for every team head.

  • Three observations, three suggestionsSignal, not a wall of charts.
  • One page per team headRead it before the first coffee.
  • Delivered Monday, 9amWaiting when the week starts.
Weekly digest · Monday 9am
This week at a glance1 / 1
Observations
•Focus time fell 8% as recurring meetings rose.
•Two engineers logged sustained after-hours work.
•Adobe CC seats sat idle for 14 days.
Suggestions
→Trim the Monday sync to 25 minutes.
→Rebalance two tickets off the Eng team.
→Reclaim 6 idle Adobe seats this cycle.
WORKFLOWS

From install to insight, in one afternoon.

Push the agent today, see the first weekly digest on Friday. No retraining, no new tab to open every morning.

01 / DEPLOY
Push the agent in one afternoon.
Signed installer for Windows & macOS. Deploy via MDM, Jamf, or a one-line script. Self-update from the next online check-in onward.
Install size12 MB
First sync< 2 min
Avg. rollout · 100 seats90 min
02 / CLASSIFY
Policy once, applied everywhere.
Tag apps as focus, neutral, or off-policy. Templates for engineering, sales, design, ops. Notify-only or notify-and-block, your call.
Templates6 roles
Policy actionsCount · Notify · Block
Push to fleet< 30s
03 / REPORT
A digest that lands in inboxes.
Weekly productivity report per team, per individual, per role. CSV export when finance asks. Employees get their own version first.
Report cadenceDaily · Weekly · Custom
FormatsPDF · CSV · API
Employee previewalways-on
DESK, READY TO RUN

See the day.
On every desk.

30-day free trial. Install on 5 laptops in 10 minutes. First focus-time report rolls in tomorrow.

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