Has anyone heard of insightful app?

15 Comments

1. KatMay 7,2025 at 2:05PM UTC

   I would feel like looking for another job. You're not a child - you're an adult in a professional position. Monitoring your time, typing, web search history or anything else at work is a horrible thing to do as an employer. It builds anger and resentment from employees and certainly wouldn't make me want to stay long. I would never allow work to install any of those items on my personal property - phone, laptop, tablet, etc. I don't know if you have a choice on a work-owned device. It would depend on the employer and the laws governing surveillance in your state.

2. KaylaMay 10,2025 at 12:54PM UTC

   Great answer! I've had it both ways. I've worked in positions where everything was heavily monitored, where if you even had to visit a new website to research something, you had to ask IT to allow you access to the page. Then, I've worked for companies that said, listen, we don't care if you're on Netflix or streaming movies from our computer, just take care of it, treat it like your own, don't be scumbags, pick up viruses, etc.

3. AnonymousMay 12,2025 at 4:31PM UTC

   Not to be a boot-licker about this, but sometimes it is just software to make sure your computer's location is tracked (in case you lose it) and to help with troubleshooting if you run into IT issues remotely. However, this specific app OP mentioned does seem extremely invasive, and I would not be comfortable with it either - Not on my work device, and as everyone else has said, on no planet would I install this on a personal device.

4. AnonymousMay 7,2025 at 5:01PM UTC

   You can’t build trust that way. Cheaters will still cheat no matter if there is a monitoring app. It won’t stop. You can’t change people by monitoring, it goes way deeper than that. Trust cannot be monitored.

5. BarbaraMay 8,2025 at 3:54AM UTC

   Don’t install anything ever on your personal device ever!

6. Paulla Fetzek, MSEdMay 8,2025 at 1:00PM UTC

   I do believe employers have the right to monitor what their employees do on company time.

   However, While employers can ask you to you to install this on your personal property, they cannot make you - nor do so without your consent. Unless you use your personal property for work purposes and then there must be a clear line regarding what they're allowed to monitor.

7. SheilaMay 9,2025 at 1:57PM UTC

   I agree. I work for a financial services company, and we just got word that they are or have already installed one such program. While I agree that it might be useful to them as to who is spending how much time on what and can help managers track productivity and may even prevent insider trading.

8. Ruth SathreMay 10,2025 at 12:17PM UTC

   I work from home on a company owned computer. When I sign in to the computer, I have to acknowledge that the company owns the computer and nothing on it is private. I know that there is monitoring software installed. I figure they have the right to do what they want on their equipment. I would not agree to this surveillance on my own equipment.

9. AnonymousMay 10,2025 at 2:09PM UTC

   Never install anything on your personal computer. I am fully remote and use a company provided PC. I also use my personal mac so that I can have several screens open at once. If there's tracking software on the PC, it's going to look like I'm not doing that much since I switch between the two often. Oh, well.

10. AnonymousMay 10,2025 at 2:50PM UTC

    If they require you to install this on your computer, I agree with all the other posters here. If you don't have an old computer you can use and it works with the software, you can probably find an inexpensive one that you can use for only this job, or ask if the company can provide one. I'm not sure what software the company installed, but I have had it take over my desktop and limit what I could see and access whenever I was logged in. (For example, I could not log into my Google cloud drive.) They can track whatever you look at and do online while logged in, and it's not that much of a stretch to assume they can also check on what you do when not logged in by analyzing browser history. With few exceptions, what you do off the clock is none of their business. If you install it on a personal computer, delete your browser history before and after logging in/out and refrain from anything personal (even email) while logged in (and ensure your personal email is completely logged out).

11. AnonymousMay 12,2025 at 3:50PM UTC

    If it is your personal computer ask the company to provide you with a work one instead. If you work for a larger company there is a strong likelihood these days that they are in general monitoring you through the back door of their IT stack. Get used to it.

12. misskelleypMay 12,2025 at 5:09PM UTC

    I would never install that kind of thing on any personally owned equipment (laptop or phone).

13. AnonymousMay 13,2025 at 3:23AM UTC

    I would refuse to install any employer software on my personal laptop or phone. If a company requires that, they should provide a laptop with the software already installed.

14. RobertK RollinsMay 14,2025 at 9:55AM UTC

    Yes, I’ve heard of the Insightful app; it’s a useful tool for tracking productivity and managing remote teams. It offers detailed analytics that help businesses understand how time is spent. If you're interested in software testing or quality assurance alongside such productivity tools, https://testing4success.com/ is a great resource to explore. Insightful pairs well with a strong QA strategy.

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