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Return to office software that shows whether the mandate worked
Attendance against your published policy and output on office days, by team. No GPS and no individual location.
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Defend the mandate with your own numbers
Most mandates are defended with badge counts. They show who came in, and the questions are about what the office days produced.
Without Insightful
It records who came in on Tuesday. It says nothing about what Tuesday produced.
A year in, the answer is still that leadership believes the mandate works.
A full office reads as a working policy, whatever the day produced.
One team starts earlier and finishes later, and nobody sees the extra hours.
Three days a week is the rule. Nobody knows which offices sit a third full.
With Insightful
Office days against your schedule, and productive time in each setting, by team.
Measures by team for the weeks before and after the mandate took effect.
Productive time on office days and remote days, from the same measure.
Hours at either end of the day, by team, so unpaid time shows up early.
Visits, unique visitors and productive time for every office you pay for.
Did the office days produce more?
Location Insights compares productive time on office days and remote days, by team and by office. The answer can come out either way, which is why it holds up when someone challenges it.
Office vs home days
Office by office
Your own thresholds
Setting from network
Peach Payments cancelled its return-to-office initiative after the data showed remote teams were more productive.
Reported at team, office and organization level. Based on the network a device connects to. No GPS, no individual location field.
See what the office days produced
Check attendance against the policy you set
The badge reader shows who came in. Insightful shows whether the day was worked, against the schedule you published. Every manual edit goes to a named approver.
- Compare office days against each team's policy
- Flag absences with no time-off record, in any setting
- Route every manual time edit to a named approver
See what changed after the mandate
Skip-level meetings produce opinions. Productive time by team, against the period before, shows what moved after the office requirement started.
- Compare output before and after the office requirement
- See whether office meetings replaced calls
- Catch a team absorbing the commute as unpaid time
Size each office against its real use
Leases get renewed against headcount because nobody can measure use. Visits, unique visitors and productive time per office give Finance that number.
- Count visits and unique visitors per office, by day
- Find the office running at a third of its headcount
- Tie timesheet entries to the office they came from
What it collects, and what it never does
App and website activity, active and idle time, and screenshots where you switch them on. Collection scope is agreed per team before rollout.
Trusted by 5,000+ Teams Worldwide
Remote operations leaders on what changed once the hours were visible.
Connect the systems your offices run on
Jira, Asana, ClickUp, GitHub, BambooHR and 50+ others. Time on projects lands where your team plans the work.
Answer the mandate with your own numbers
What HR leaders ask about RTO mandates
Mandates, badges, location and employee access, answered before the next skip-level.
A return to office mandate is an employer rule that staff work from a company office for a set number of days each week or month. Most are enforced through a badge or access system. That system records who entered a building, and nothing about what the day produced.
Return to office software reports whether a policy is being followed and whether the office days it requires produce anything. Insightful is a work insights platform. It compares attendance against your published schedule and sets productive time on office days against remote days, by team, office and organization. It doesn't enforce anything. Enforcement stays where it already sits.
Because the badge reader answers the question nobody is arguing about. Attendance is easy to count. What gets contested in every skip-level is whether the office days are worth the commute, and the access system can't compare that.
No. There's no GPS and no use of device location services. The working setting is inferred from the network a device connects to, which classifies a day as office, remote or mixed. That's a category for the day, never a place for a person.
No. Access control is a security system. Insightful sits next to it and shows what the recorded days produced, against days worked from home. Expect the two counts to differ at the edges: a badge records an entry, and Insightful records a day's working setting.
Yes, at team, office and organization level, from the same activity data Workforce Analytics already collects. It compares your own teams in your own two settings. It has no built-in view on which setting should win.
Yes, in a visible rollout, which is what we recommend, especially for an unpopular policy. Each person gets a view of their own activity, including their office and remote split. Stealth deployment is supported, and it costs you that view.
Then you know a year earlier than you would have. Peach Payments ran the comparison and cancelled its return-to-office initiative. A report that can only give one answer won't survive the first executive who asks how it was built.
