With so many possibilities in your work days, it’s easy to get side-tracked. RescueTime’s Personal Reports give you an accurate picture of how you spend time on the computer, and tools to help you be more productive every day.
Facebook is working with RescueTime to create a more productive work environment for its employees, and you are invited to participate. After opting in to use the tool, anonymous statistics about time spent in a few key applications will be analyzed to better understand how work gets done at Facebook.
There are two ways to use RescueTime:
Option One: Get RescueTime's Personal Reports + Anonymous Sharing
Option Two: Just Share Anonymous Usage Stats About Key Apps
If you prefer, you can skip the personal reports and simply share anonymous stats about the key applications Facebook has selected to study.
This helps Facebook improve the employee experience by better understanding how work gets done. You can choose to stop sharing at any time.
If you would rather remove RescueTime from your computer entirely, click here.
If you have an existing RescueTime account, click here.
What’s included With RescueTime Personal Reports?
A private, detailed record of how you spend your time on the computer
RescueTime’s Personal Reports will give you interesting statistics about how you spend time on the computer. See which applications and websites you spend the most time with, and learn more about your daily patterns. How much time did you spend on email? In meetings? RescueTime gives you the answers.
Note: The detailed reports in RescueTime Personal Edition are visible to you only. They will not be shared with your employer or used in any group analysis.
All Your Time In A Weekly Email Summary
Stay informed with a weekly email report summarizing your activities and productivity score. Use your report to better plan the new week.
Set Goals For The Day
You can set goals to help keep you on track and improve your productivity. View your progress on your dashboard, in the weekly email report, and in the goals report.
Stay Aware With Notifications
You can create alerts to notify you for just about anything. Like spending too much time on an activity or for being super productive that day.
Block Distracting Sites
RescueTime can block distracting websites when you are trying to focus. You control over which sites are marked as distracting, and when to start and stop blocking.
Facebook is using RescueTime to better understand how time is spent in its key business applications.
You can help by agreeing to anonymously share time usage statistics for the following applications:
- Bluejeans
- Bluejeans
- Dropbox
- Dropbox
- Facebook Ads Manager
- Facebook Business Manager
- Facebook Business Manager
- Facebook at Work
- Facebook.com
- Help Center
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Intern Tools
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Office
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Outlook
- Phabricator
- Quip
- Quip
- Salesforce
- Tableau
- Tableau
- Tableau
- Zoho
- our.hr.facebook.com
Here’s how the anonymous data will be used
Statistics about the time spent in the key applications listed above will be combined with results from other participants and analyzed to find patterns about how work gets done at Facebook.
All data is anonymized and aggregated, and Facebook does not have access to identifying details.
You can stop sharing at any time
You are free to stop RescueTime whenever you like.
You can temporarily pause RescueTime a short period, or you can opt out of logging altogether by choosing the “Stop RescueTime” option from the application menu on your computer.