# Privacy-Aware Employee Monitoring Alternative

> MARFI is a privacy-aware alternative to old employee monitoring: telemetry, consent tiers, tenant isolation, and no Insight screenshots.

Canonical URL: https://insight.marfi.app/privacy-aware-employee-monitoring

Teams need to understand work, but traditional monitoring often creates trust problems. MARFI separates telemetry, screenshots, actions, and system metrics into explicit tiers so organizations can use work data with clearer boundaries.

## Audience

Companies evaluating employee monitoring alternatives, workforce analytics, or productivity telemetry.

## Search Intent

Compare privacy-aware workplace telemetry with traditional employee monitoring software.

## The goal is operational truth, not surveillance theater.

MARFI is built around work patterns: tools, activity, actions, workflows, and machine health. The product is strongest when teams use it to improve systems, training, staffing, and automation rather than to police isolated moments.

## Capture tiers make boundaries explicit.

Activity, screenshots, actions, and system metrics are separate consent tiers. Insight workspaces are telemetry-only and the server rejects screenshot data from Insight tenants.

- Separate opt-ins
- Plan gates
- Auditability
- Retention windows

## Data ownership and retention are part of the product.

Customers own raw captures and derived trajectories. Insight includes 90-day retention, Trajectory includes 12-month retention, and self-hosted Enclave keeps deployment inside customer-controlled infrastructure.

## FAQ

### Does MARFI record employees secretly?

No. MARFI is built around explicit capture tiers and user consent. Screenshot capture is only available on Trajectory and still requires opt-in.

### Can MARFI be used without screenshots?

Yes. Insight is telemetry-only and does not capture screenshots.

## Related Pages

- [Workforce Telemetry vs Employee Monitoring](https://insight.marfi.app/answers/workforce-telemetry-vs-employee-monitoring): Workforce telemetry focuses on operational work patterns, while traditional employee monitoring often focuses on surveillance-style oversight.
- [Privacy](https://insight.marfi.app/privacy): MARFI's privacy model uses consent tiers, telemetry-only Insight capture, customer data ownership, and retention windows.
- [Security](https://insight.marfi.app/security): MARFI Insight AI uses tenant isolation, encryption at rest, TLS in transit, plan gates, and scoped capture controls for workplace telemetry.
- [Workforce Telemetry](https://insight.marfi.app/workforce-telemetry): MARFI Insight AI turns work activity, app usage, system state, and consented actions into privacy-aware workforce telemetry for operations and AI teams.