Time tracking for tech companies
comply with the law without killing your culture
Recording working time does not require watching screens, taking screenshots or measuring keystrokes. One click when you start, one click when you finish, and your culture intact. Remote work, full flexibility and zero surveillance.
Quick answer: in a tech company, time recording triggers instant pushback, it sounds like presenteeism and distrust. But the obligation applies to your remote startup just as it does to an assembly line, and the fine is the same (€751-7,500, and with the new Royal Decree up to €10,000 per employee). The good news: recording working time does NOT require watching screens or measuring keystrokes; that last part is what is illegal if it is disproportionate. One click when you start, one click when you finish.
The 4 challenges of a tech team
Recording is not surveillance. The law asks for start, end and breaks; a record done right protects the employee (their hours exist and count) and the employer (€751-7,500 less risk).
Real remote and hybrid
Monday from home, Tuesday at the office, a month in Lisbon. The exact same clock-in from anywhere with a Chrome extension (one click when you open your laptop), mobile app or web. No VPN, no weird installs.
Flexible hours and async
For the person who hits their stride at 7:00 and the one who does at 22:00, the record reflects each reality, and the system reconciles weekly and monthly totals, with the hours bank documented if you offset them.
The cultural objection
One click, zero surveillance, and data that also works for the team. Are we burning out the support crew? The record tells you before the eNPS does. Cleverfy AI answers in natural language.
Working from another country
The trendy question: the record still has to be kept. The tax and employment implications of international remote work are another conversation with your advisor. Technically, the app clocks you in wherever you are.
How Cleverfy works in a tech company
Time recording, not monitoring. The law asks for start, end and breaks, not screenshots or keyloggers. One click, not a panopticon.
Chrome extension
Click when you start, click when you finish. Friction trends to zero and adoption to 100%.
App and web
For every other context, with optional geolocation and only at the moment of clocking in. No tracking whatsoever.
Flexibility and alerts
Flexible hours, automatic totals and overtime with alerts. The burnout data point before it becomes turnover.
Cleverfy AI and ChatGPT
Ask your working-time data in natural language, and with the official app in ChatGPT you clock in from the chat itself. No other Spanish time-tracking tool has it.
Zero surveillance by design
No screenshots, no activity tracking, no cameras. Time recording, literally.
4-year history + traceability
Compliance with the new Royal Decree without touching a thing. Set up in 10 minutes, less than your CI pipeline.
Time-recording systems for a tech company, compared
"We trust each other, we don't clock in here"
€751-7,500 + presumptions against you + zero proof of the right to disconnect
Homemade Slack bot
Fun for the first sprint; no 4-year retention, no traceability, no formal employee access: not compliant
Shared spreadsheet
Editable by everyone = proof of nothing
"Productivity" tools with screenshots
GDPR risk from disproportionality, and a torpedo to your culture
Cleverfy (Chrome + app + web)
One click, flexible, no surveillance, and more than enough simplicity
What the record must contain (and what the Labour Inspectorate will look at)
The Labour Inspectorate reaches tech companies through the burned-out employee's complaint (support and on-call are the classic hotspots) and, increasingly, through remote work campaigns: remote work requires the same record as the office.
Employee identification
Everyone on an employment contract: developers, product, design, marketing, ops
Actual start and end
Async too: the person who starts at 7:00 and the one who starts at 11:00, each their own reality
Occasional night work
The 23:00 deploy is working time, and it counts
On-call shifts
With documented criteria for counting and compensation
Remote work
Same record from home, the office or Lisbon (remote work law, Ley 10/2021)
Right to disconnect
Demonstrated, precisely, through the record
How to roll it out in a startup in 5 steps
Write down your flexibility framework
One doc, one hour. Core overlap window if you have one, weekly or monthly totals, async allowed, disconnect policy. What is implicit culture today, in writing: documented flexibility is legal; implicit flexibility is an hours bank accruing interest.
Roll out the Chrome extension
Fifteen minutes. One click when you open the laptop, another when you close it. For a team that lives in the browser it is the most natural gesture possible; adoption is not fought for, it is installed. App and web for the rest.
Document on-call shifts
One hour with your advisor. Availability, intervention and compensation get different treatments depending on your arrangement. Written criteria turn on-call from a legal loophole into a system: the 3 a.m. intervention is clocked in two taps and counts.
Run it in for one sprint
Two weeks: missed clock-ins fixed with a trail, framework questions resolved in the people channel. The team confirms in the app that their hours exist, including the ones from Saturday's incident.
Monthly routine with a burnout radar
Hours report by team, offset overtime, and the question to Cleverfy AI that is worth a retention: "who went over 45 hours this week?". The data arrives before the resignation letter does.
Remote-first SaaS with 24 employees
The risk: an on-call engineer racks up a year of night interventions with no record and no compensation. Their exit goes badly and they file a claim: their evidence is the PagerDuty logs, the late-night commits and the incident messages, timestamps included. With no record to give context, their reconstruction is presumed: more than €9,000 between overtime and violated rest periods, and the resulting Inspection asks about the other 23, starting with support.
The outcome with Cleverfy: €28.80/month on the annual plan. The first month of data shows that support concentrates the excess, two people brushing 47 hours; the rotation is rebalanced and a part-time reinforcement is hired with the data in hand. Night interventions start being clocked and compensated that same week, and the right to disconnect stops being a paragraph in the handbook: it is a record with no weekend clock-ins that proves it.
Frequently asked questions about time tracking in tech companies
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