Worklytics

Worklytics counts how people work, and your plan sets how much detail you see

What Worklytics reads and how the data reaches it

Before you buy, you need to know what Worklytics collects and how. It connects to the tools your people already use and counts how they use them. These include Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce and Zendesk. They also include AI tools such as ChatGPT Enterprise, Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Glean and Microsoft Copilot.

Worklytics does not store or analyse work content. It uses the exhaust data that tools leave behind, such as logs. For Outlook mail it asks for permission to read metadata only. Metadata means who wrote to whom and when. It does not mean what is in the message. Worklytics installs no browser plug-in and no software that monitors laptops. It then anonymises, cleans and adds up the data into metrics and network graphs of who works with whom.

It also needs your HR data to know who sits in which team. Its documentation covers sending HR data as CSV files. The file defines join and leave dates, managers and organisation structure. Worklytics recommends a fresh file every week.

How the data reaches Worklytics depends on the mode. In Direct mode, Worklytics reads your tools and cleans the data itself. This is the default for customers who are comfortable granting that access. In the Customer Hosted Proxy mode, a filter runs in your own AWS or Google cloud account. It replaces personal data with scrambled codes before Worklytics sees it. Worklytics’ pricing table puts that filter under Enterprise. A third mode is the Worklytics Managed Proxy. The Data Connection Admin role is usually held by someone in your IT team.

What Worklytics’ figures count

Worklytics gives two answers for its metrics and for its tools. Ask which number applies to your plan before you compare it with another product.

Its reporting documentation and its Business plan put the count at more than 200 metrics. Its how-it-works description puts it at more than 400. Tools also have two counts. The how-it-works description gives over 25 commonly used tools. The pricing questions give 50 or more. The most-used metric is a weekly flag for each person. That bears on how much detail about individuals you see.

Benchmarks compare you with other companies. They are available to participating companies. As of February 2025 they represent hundreds of millions of records and tens of thousands of employees across eight industries. People are grouped into profiles such as Line Manager and Individual Contributor, in ten bands called deciles. Business includes basic benchmarks. Enterprise includes advanced ones. Guideline ranges are different. They rest on best practice and the Worklytics team’s experience. They are not an industry benchmark.

Worklytics also offers an Employee Experience Rating. It defines a rating of 90 as a 90% probability. That is the chance that the average employee is still working in the organisation in 6 months. It gives a rating for each group. The ratings are learned from several years of engagement-survey and past-attrition data. These details come from 2020 help articles, so ask whether they still apply.

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What Worklytics costs and what happens when you stop

The price you can read is the Business plan. It costs $2,500 a month and covers up to 200 users and up to 5 integrations. A user is any employee whose work data is analysed. Administrators who manage the platform do not count. Each extra user costs $10 a month. Business is billed monthly.

Here is what that means if you analyse everyone. At 500 employees you pay for 300 extra users, so $5,500 a month. At 1,000 employees you pay for 800 extra users, so $10,500 a month. These examples assume the $10 price applies to every user above 200 and that you analyse every employee.

Business covers up to five integrations. Worklytics connects to over 25 tools by one count and 50 or more by another. Five is a small share of either number. Ask whether your HR file counts as one. History is also unclear. On the Business card, history runs up to 3 months. In the feature comparison table, it runs 12 months. Ask which one your contract will state.

Enterprise is custom priced, and its contracts are typically annual with custom terms. It adds single sign-on, role-based access and predictive analytics. It also adds fuller benchmarks and row-level data through an API or data warehouse. It adds the privacy filter that runs on your side too. Unlimited integrations, strategic reviews and success planning, and priority support are part of it.

The privacy filter runs in your own cloud account, so you pay for its running cost on your cloud bill. In Worklytics’ experience, running it has never cost more than $3 per 1,000 employees a week in your cloud. It typically costs $0.50 to $2.

Under Worklytics’ terms, all amounts paid are non-refundable and prices may change. You have 60 days after an invoice to dispute a charge, by email.

Twelve questions to put to Worklytics

1. What will our plan return about individuals, and what smallest group will you set for our account? Good answer: A written list of the fields on our plan, and a group size we can raise ourselves.
2. Which Microsoft Teams fields do you read, and do you read any message content? Good answer: A field-by-field list that our IT and legal teams can check.
3. Does our plan include the privacy filter that runs on our side, and what does it cost us to run? Good answer: Yes on our plan, with a stated cloud cost per 1,000 employees per week.
4. What do you keep after we leave, and is the anonymised data deleted too? Good answer: A deletion date in the contract, with anonymised data either removed or described in writing.
5. Will you add a notice period before you suspend or end our account? Good answer: A written notice period in our order form.
6. What uptime figure and support hours will our contract carry? Good answer: A firm uptime figure, and response times that cover our working day.
7. How many months of history does Business carry, three or twelve? Good answer: One number, written into the order form.
8. Which datasets and exports cost extra on our plan? Good answer: A named list with prices.
9. What does taking part in the benchmarks require from us, and can we opt out? Good answer: A plain answer on whether our data feeds the comparison set, and a way out.
10. What does each AI tool we connect send to you? Good answer: A written description for each tool.
11. Are the AI adoption comparisons with peers live, and how many companies are in them? Good answer: Yes, with the number of companies and industries stated.
12. Will you remove the right to use our company name and logo as a reference? Good answer: Yes. The right is removed from our contract.

Alternatives to Worklytics

If Worklytics comes off your shortlist, look at Humanyze, Glickon, One Model and Visier.

Humanyze and Glickon work from similar records. Humanyze combines HR system data with collaboration measures and network analysis. It aggregates every metric to team, function or organisation level, never to individuals. Compare that with the plan-dependent detail in Worklytics’ documents. Humanyze gives price on request and does not typically offer a free trial. Worklytics has a Free plan. Glickon combines survey results with data from email, calendars and chat. Under its Starter heading, Glickon gives 3 euros per user a month and a plan from 499 euros a month.

One Model and Visier start from your HR systems. One Model brings HRIS, ATS, payroll, engagement, performance and finance data into one HR data model. It sells three editions, each by quote. Its AI Impact product was announced on 6 October 2026. It analyses prompts from several AI tools and data about employees from Microsoft’s Graph service. Visier maps the systems you run into one workforce model. It prices by number of employees through sales and offers a 30-day free trial.

A low-cost first step is Worklytics’ own Free plan, which covers calendar data for up to 100 users. Our guide to people analytics covers how to choose between all of these. The comparison page puts the products side by side.