Focus for Teams Overview
RescueTime Focus for Teams helps organizations understand how work time is spent, protect focus, and spot patterns that make it harder for teams to do meaningful work.
Team leaders get visibility into focus trends, key tools, and high-level activity categories without exposing the details of an individual's workday.
Features and plans
Focus for Teams includes:
- Automatic time tracking for every team member
- Team-level productivity reporting
- Category and key tools reports
- Reports by organization, team, or individual
- All individual Focus features for every team member
- Admin tools for managing members, teams, and settings
Focus for Teams is one of two Team plans available. Upgrading to Team+ also adds Timesheets, automatic project tracking, and advanced reporting.
What team reports show
Team reports help you understand patterns across your organization. Depending on your role, you can review:
- Time summaries for the whole organization
- Reports filtered by specific teams or individual members
- Time spent in top-level categories (e.g., Software Development, Communication, Focus Work)
- Time spent in key tools selected by the team
- Daily work patterns showing when activity peaks and drops
What team reports don't show
RescueTime Focus for Teams is designed to support better work habits, not monitor every second of the day.
Owners and admins can view high-level summaries, selected key tools, and category totals. They cannot view a member's full personal activity history. Non-work activities remain private to that individual.
Owner, Admin, and Member
There are three roles in RescueTime Focus for Teams. Each has a different level of access.
The account owner manages the overall team account and has full access, including:
- Billing and subscription management
- Inviting and removing members
- Creating and managing admins
- All team settings and reports
Admins help manage the team account. They can:
- Invite and remove members
- Manage team settings and organization
- View team reports and manage key tools
Admins do not have access to billing information.
Members use RescueTime to track their own time, access their individual Focus features, and contribute data to team reports.
Members cannot change team settings or access billing information.
Members and Teams pages
Under Organization Settings, the Members page shows everyone in your organization along with their email, role, and active status.
The Teams page lets you create and manage sub-groups within your organization. Each team shows its name, assigned managers, and member count. From here, you can also configure key tools for each team.
Who should use Focus for Teams?
Focus for Teams is a good fit for teams that want to:
- Understand where work time actually goes
- Protect focus time and reduce unnecessary distractions
- Identify tools or categories that take up a disproportionate amount of time
- Improve workflows without micromanaging individuals
- Support healthier work habits across the organization