How to use this
Flip between Weekly and Monthly using the tabs below to preview each format. Fields are live — type to see how the template feels in use. This page does not save your inputs; for the version you fill in and keep, download the printable PDF (free, link below). Anti-surveillance flavour: every signal is outcome-shaped — no screenshot ratio, no keystroke count, no continuous webcam.
Weekly Productivity Report
Friday afternoon cadence. Manager fills out (or gStride auto-populates) the 5-signal grid + blocker log + next-week plan.
| Manager | Team | ||
| Week of | Headcount |
5-signal weekly grid
Capture the team-level rollup for each signal this week. The rubric column shows how each signal is computed; the target column is a benchmark for healthy engineering teams. Beat it, miss it, hold steady — all are useful — the point is the trend not the absolute number.
| # | Signal | How it is computed | Target | This week |
|---|
Blocker log — this week
Capture each blocker that cost > 2 hrs of IC time. Repeat blockers across weeks are the highest-leverage fixes.
| # | Blocker description | IC time lost | Hours to clear | Owner of fix |
|---|
Next week — top 3 plan
Three commitments for next week. Keep it outcome-shaped — "ship the consent-export endpoint" beats "work on consent flow" every time.
| # | Outcome we will ship | Lead | Risk if missed |
|---|
Monthly Productivity Report
First business day of the month. Same 5 signals as Weekly, rolled up across 4 – 5 weeks. Adds trend deltas, deep-work per IC, blocker themes, capacity drift, retro.
| Reporting unit | Month | ||
| Manager | Avg headcount |
5-signal monthly trend
The same 5 signals as the weekly report, rolled up across 4–5 weeks. Capture month average, delta vs prior month, one-line interpretation. A 10% drop in focus depth + 12% rise in meeting load is the same story told twice — name the cause once.
| # | Signal | Target | This month | Prior month | Delta |
|---|
Deep-work hours per IC (this month)
An IC-level rollup of deep-work hours across the month. Sort high-to-low. The shape — a long tail or a sharp drop-off — is the conversation, not the names.
| IC code | Role | Deep-work hrs | vs prior month | Manager note |
|---|
Blocker themes (this month)
Cluster individual blockers from the four weekly reports into themes — "QA bottleneck," "Vendor latency," "Ambiguous requirements." The leverage move is the theme with the largest combined IC-hours cost.
| # | Theme | Count | IC hrs lost | Owner | Close date |
|---|
Capacity drift · focus-vs-meeting ratio
A drift of > 18% over two months running is the early signal that a hiring conversation needs to happen before the next quarter — not after.
| Metric | This month | Prior month | Read |
|---|
Retro · decisions · next-month plan
One paragraph per box. Keep it outcome-shaped and decision-shaped, not feeling-shaped.
What worked
What we missed
Decisions made this month
Top 3 outcomes — next month
Metric calculation rubric
Each of the 5 signals defined in one paragraph. Consistency week-over-week is the difference between a useful trend and a noisy chart.
Compliance posture · AI Act + DPDP
Read these two callouts before you populate Signal 1 (Focus depth) or Signal 5 (Flow-state minutes) from any automated source.
EU AI Act (enforcement Aug 2, 2026)
Productivity inference on an employee is a high-risk use case under Annex III. If your source data includes screenshot capture, keystroke logging, or continuous webcam capture, you are running a high-risk system and need transparency, human oversight, and a DPIA. This template uses outcome signals, not capture signals — which keeps the inference outside the high-risk tier when sourced correctly.
DPDP Act 2023 (India)
Default-on capture inverts the consent posture under DPDP Sections 4 and 5. Use this template as a measurement layer above a no-screenshot, no-keystroke, no-default-webcam source — that is what an AI productivity intelligence platform looks like under DPDP. Verify implementation with your DPO before rollout.
Next step — get the printable PDF + book a readiness audit
Download the full template as a printable PDF (Weekly 4-page + Monthly 6-page + rubric + AI Act/DPDP compliance footer), or book a 30-minute readiness audit and have gStride walk it through on your real team data.