Your team already opens SCREENish every day to track time and stay on the same page. Now there’s a brand-new reason to keep it open. Meet SCREENish Huddle — a private place for your whole team to talk, call, and share, built right into the window you already use.

Look for the new Huddle tab. Behind it you’ll find a team directory, one-to-one chat, audio and video calls, and direct file sharing — all in one spot. And here’s the promise we want to lead with: this is a secure team chat app designed so that your company’s conversations stay your company’s business. There’s nothing new to install and no separate account to create. If you have SCREENish, you have Huddle.

Everyone on your team, one click away

No more hunting through email addresses or trying to remember someone’s username. Open Huddle and a simple team directory shows exactly who you can reach. Message them, call them, or start a video — all from the same list.

Just as important is who can’t show up there. Only people verified as being on your team can message or call you. There’s no inviting the whole internet, no strangers wandering in, and no spam from accounts you’ve never heard of. This is a private team messaging app built for real coworkers, not for the outside world.

Chat one-to-one without leaving a trail

Sometimes you just need a quick answer. Huddle lets you send text messages straight to a teammate, right inside SCREENish — perfect for the day-to-day questions you’d rather not scatter across email threads or some outside app.

Here’s what makes it a genuinely private business messaging app. Messages are delivered while you’re both online. Our server simply passes each one along and then forgets it — so there’s no growing pile of chat history sitting on a server somewhere for anyone to leak, hand over, or mine. The only copy of your conversation history lives on your own computer, and it’s locked to that computer. Copy that history file to another machine and it simply won’t open. Your words stay with you.

Text chat in Huddle is always one-to-one — a real, private conversation between two people.

Jump on a call, face to face

When a call beats typing, start one in a couple of clicks. Reach a teammate by audio or video, or gather a small group — up to four people — for a quick huddle to talk something through together.

This is where private video calls for teams really shine. Whenever your network allows, your call travels straight from one person’s device to the other — device to device, not parked on some company’s cloud. It’s scrambled the entire way, so no one in the middle can watch or listen in. And on the rare occasion a strict office firewall forces a call to take a detour, the point it passes through still can’t make sense of a thing — your conversation stays unreadable to it.

The call also runs in its own separate space that shuts down the moment you close the app. Nothing lingers.

Send files straight to a teammate, and nowhere else

Need to hand someone a document, an image, or a report? Huddle’s secure file sharing for teams is the strictest part of the whole experience.

Files travel straight from your device to your teammate’s device — hand to hand. They never pass through, and never sit on, any server. And if a truly private, direct connection can’t be made, Huddle doesn’t quietly reroute your file somewhere you didn’t choose. It cancels the transfer and tells you clearly. Privacy always wins over convenience. Anything you receive lands neatly in your Downloads folder, right where you’d expect it.

It all lives in one window

Chat, calls, and file sharing sit together under the Huddle tab, so there’s no bouncing between apps all day. Because it’s part of SCREENish, your team stays in the tool they already know. One login, one window, one place for team communication — that’s the whole idea behind a truly built-in team communication tool.

How SCREENish Huddle keeps your team’s conversations private

We think about privacy the way you do — in plain English. Here’s the honest picture of how we help you keep team conversations private:

• Everything runs on our own equipment. Huddle doesn’t hand your team’s calls, chats, or files to Zoom, Slack, Microsoft, or any other outside service. It all stays on infrastructure that SCREENish runs itself. This is genuinely self-hosted team chat — your talk never leaves hands you trust.
• Our server is a switchboard operator that keeps no record. Picture an old-fashioned operator who connects two people and then forgets they ever spoke. That’s our server: it introduces two teammates, passes things along, and saves nothing — no messages, no files, no recordings. Your calls and files are scrambled so the operator couldn’t make sense of them anyway, and your chat messages are gone from our side the instant they’re delivered.
• Nothing sensitive is ever stored. No saved messages, no stored files, no call recordings sitting on a server anywhere. There’s no online history to be leaked, hacked, handed over, or mined — because it was never kept in the first place.
• Your chat history stays on your computer, locked to it. Move that file to another machine and it won’t open. It belongs to one device: yours.
• Calls go straight between the people talking, scrambled the whole way — and even a firewall’s detour point can’t see or hear anything.
• Files go device to device and never touch a server — and a transfer that can’t stay private is stopped, not rerouted.
• Everything travels over secure, protected connections — the same kind of protection you rely on when you log into your bank’s website.

That’s what makes Huddle secure team communication software you can actually explain to your team without a technical manual.

How it’s different

Slack, Zoom, and Teams keep your chats, files, and recordings on their cloud, run by their company. Huddle keeps nothing sensitive on a server at all — your history lives on your own computer, and your files pass straight from one teammate to the next.

The big platforms are built to remember everything forever. Huddle is built to remember as little as possible. There’s no third party sitting in the middle of your team’s business, no server-side history waiting to be exposed, and no extra app to buy, per-seat chat fee, or separate login to juggle. It’s the private version of team chat, calls, and file sharing — your calls scrambled end to end, your chat kept off our servers entirely — already inside the app your team opens every day.

Frequently asked questions

Is SCREENish Huddle really private?
Yes. Your messages, calls, and files run on SCREENish’s own servers, never through Zoom, Slack, or other outside services, and nothing sensitive is ever stored where it could leak.

Where are my chat messages saved?
Only on your own computer. Our server passes each message along and forgets it, so there’s no chat history sitting on a server. The history saved on your device is locked to that device, so copying the file to another computer leaves it unreadable.

Are my calls and video secure?
Yes. Calls are scrambled and sent straight from one person’s device to another whenever possible. In the rare case a strict company firewall has to reroute them, the go-between still can’t see or hear anything.

What happens to files I send?
Files go directly from your device to your teammate’s and never touch a server. If a private direct connection can’t be made, the transfer is cancelled with a clear message rather than quietly rerouted. Files you receive land in your Downloads folder.

Who can message or call me?
Only people verified as members of your own team. Outsiders and strangers can’t reach you through Huddle.

How many people can join, and do I need to install anything?
Text chat is one-to-one, and a call can include a small group of up to four people. There’s nothing new to install — Huddle is built into SCREENish, so just update the app and open the Huddle tab.

Turn on Huddle and start talking privately today

Getting started takes seconds. Update SCREENish, open the Huddle tab, and your team directory is right there waiting. Send your first message, start a call, or share a file — all in a few clicks.

If you’ve been looking for a team chat app for small business that respects your privacy by design, this is it. Give your team a place to talk freely and share freely, knowing the conversation stays yours. Open Huddle and start talking privately today.

By SCREENish Team

Collectives in tens and hundreds of thousands of people are difficult to manage. It is even more difficult to improve the effectiveness of such management. In order to collect data for analysis, corporations use modern methods of personnel control.

Is it possible to know what each employee of a company with more than 100,000 employees does? “Of course not!” – Most of the sane people will say, and they will be wrong. Modern technologies have reached heights, when a special system of personnel control can track the activities of tens and hundreds of thousands of people.

Correct functioning of such software requires a lot of corporation: a well-organized structure of the organization, progressive IT solutions, competent managers, capable of analyzing the data provided by the personnel control system, as well as the corresponding corporate culture that promotes effective work and dedication.

So, let’s talk about:

 Time tracking with screenshots systems

In the context of the article, we can divide the personnel control programs into fully automatic and semi-automated ones. The principal difference between these systems is that semi-automated personnel control systems will not be suitable for teams of several thousand people, not to mention international large companies. For example, systems that use time tracking with screenshots make it impossible to automatically analyze the time. Even for one employee typed more than 100 screenshots per week. This is 10 million shots for the collective of one hundred thousand people.

As for the first classification, everything is simple: spy systems are sharpened for security, and not for monitoring employees’ working hours. Accordingly, the goals of increasing the effectiveness of their work they will not help. Their goal is to prevent malicious acts inside the company.

Thus, the conclusion suggests that a global company needs a loyal personnel control system that will automatically analyze the employees’ working hours.

However, if you are running a small business with not more than 150 employees, you can test SCREENish time tracking with screenshots. You will find out how easy and effective this monitoring can be. Something more, you will enjoy the benefits of using SCREENish software just after 3 months of using this software. SCREENish is one of the best and easy to use professional systems for employees’ monitoring. Although, it is not popular as other time tracking with screenshots software, it also has its advantages.

First of all, when the employer wants to use time tracking with GPS, he should check what the law says about tracking individuals. GPS time tracking can be done in two different ways – installing GPS app in the employee’s smart phone or through GPS device in the vehicle, driven by the employee. And here comes the tricky moment! If the employer is tracking a company-owned vehicle in order to monitor the employee and verify that time records are accurate for instance, then there is no need to inform the employee that the vehicle has installed GPS time tracking system. However, if the vehicle is owned by the employee and he uses it to in his work, then the employer has the right to install GPS time tracking system only with the knowledge and agreement of the owner of the vehicle – the employee.

In some US states, however, it is considered that the employer violates employee’s privacy if he installs GPS software in a company-owned vehicle in order to monitor the employee. In the state of Illinois it is obligatory for the employer to inform the employee there is GPS time tracking system in the company used vehicle. In New York City is also considered to illegal and unreasonable to monitor the employee’ owned vehicle that he uses for work. The explanation is simple – through this GPS system the employee is been monitored not only in his working hours, but also in his free time.

The topic about tracking the employees via an app installed in their smart phones is even less clear. In fact, just 2 years ago a woman was fired from work because she uninstalled the GPS app from her smart phone. Of course, she sued the company and she won the case. We have to mention that the specific smart phone was given by the employer to the employee with the instruction it should be always turned on. This means the employer has been tracking the off-duty activities of the employees. So is installing GPS app to monitor the employees violates their privacy?

If the employer wants to benefit from GPS time tracking in order to maximize the efficiency of work, there are some principles he should follow. On the first place, he should be informed about the country or state regulations about GPS tracking of vehicles or smart phones of employees. Also, it is recommended to use GPS monitoring only in company-owned vehicles or smart phones. Moreover, he has to inform the employee that he is been monitored via time tracking software. Very important factor is to monitor the employee only to extent that is related to work. For sure, the employer needs a GPS tracking policy – the employee should know what the purpose of monitoring is, when and in what way he will be tracked and how the safeguard data will be used.