---
title: "Keep a private record of your own work."
url: "https://timeretain.com/use-cases/employees"
description: "A private hour log for salaried employees. Record meetings, focused work, reviews, and interruptions on your device. No account or manager view."
---

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# Keep a private record of your own work.

Record focused work, meetings, reviews, and the interruptions around them. TimeRetain gives you a private timeline that you can check at the end of the day or week.

![Clay figure of an employee at a desk with a laptop, a stopwatch, a clock, and floating time blocks.](/_astro/employees.BQoVt98J_Z1KTv8G.webp)

*   Work
    
    Running example duration: 2h 10m.
    
    Draft quarterly budget notes
    
    Focused work
    
*   Work
    
    1.5h
    
    Weekly planning and roadmap
    
    Mon 30 Mar
    
    1:30 PM – 3:00 PM
    
    Meetings
    
*   Work
    
    55m
    
    Review supplier contract changes
    
    Tue 31 Mar
    
    9:15 AM – 10:10 AM
    
    Review
    

*   The hour around the meeting
    
    Preparation, overrun, and the time to regain focus belong in the log, not only in the calendar event.
    
*   A week you can read
    
    Tag meetings, reviews, support, or focused work as they happen. Review the week from your own record.
    
*   Yours, not HR's
    
    There is no manager dashboard or screenshot tool. Your main record lives on your device.
    

Calendar events record scheduled time. They do not record preparation, overruns, or the time that you need to return to focused work. By Friday, these missing blocks can make the week difficult to explain.

Start and stop a private timer as your work changes. Use tags and short notes to see which parts of the week took your time, without giving an employer a monitoring dashboard.

## Start a work log only you control.

The timer runs in this browser. There is no employer login, manager dashboard, or automatic screen capture.

*   No account
*   No email
*   No download
*   Stored on your device first

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