Employee tracking tools are software products which allow supervisors to control productivity and performance, indicating the working efforts of their subordinates. Such an employee tracking tool serves as an instrument delivering all necessary data pieces to those who possess the authority on the project or business process to assess and evaluate work of employees (in order to qualify their efforts and contribution, and as a result their productivity, remunerations, bonuses, etc). Good example of employee tracking tool which can be employed in small and medium organizations is VIP Task Manager that features the following elements:

• Employee tracking database – this is a sole database where all the necessary information is properly framed up and stored. In this product, the employee tracking database can be shared on your corporate server to make possible the real-time concurrent access and collaboration of subordinates (to contribute and update data) and superiors (to track their achievements on the project);
•  Employee tracking spreadsheet – this is a universal instrument allowing creating worksheets of employees’ tasks to attribute them with different matters and assign them to performers. In this program (VIP Task Manager) the employee tracking spreadsheet is called Task List mode and can be used as an agile to-do list manager (for assigning personal tasks) by those superiors who plan and assign workloads, and by those subordinates who report them;
• Employee tracking forms – this is a predefined layout of interface allowing the users to focus only on the essential matters to track or report (suiting their tasks and positions). In VIP Task Manager you can elaborate your own interface layouts to get a more specific picture of efforts undertaken on your projects and business activity. Such employee tracking forms can be shared between multiple users;
• Employee tracking charts – these are visual representations of essential performance indicators to be evaluated in terms of planned values against the actual ones (as they are received from the “field” in ongoing regime). In this software you can use several kinds of employee tracking charts including Bar diagram, Column diagram, Pie diagram, etc;