wxrks automatically tracks the time spent working on each segment in the Translation Editor and Review Editor. Time is measured from the moment you click into a segment's target text to the moment you leave it, so you and your project team get real visibility into effort per segment and per work unit — no manual timesheets required for this level of detail.
💡 Who is this for? Anyone who translates or reviews in the Editor sees their own time automatically. Project Managers and Account Admins can additionally see time spent by every linguist who worked on a given work unit.
How it works
wxrks starts a timer the moment you click into (focus) a segment's target text box, and stops it the moment you leave (blur) that segment — by clicking into another segment, clicking elsewhere on the page, or switching browser tabs. Each focus-to-blur pair adds to that segment's running total; leaving and returning to the same segment multiple times keeps adding time rather than resetting it.
A few guardrails keep the numbers realistic:
A single focus-to-blur session under half a second is treated as a stray click and isn't counted.
A single session over 2 hours is discarded as an outlier (for example, if you left a segment focused overnight) rather than inflating your total.
If more than 60 minutes pass between events with no activity, wxrks assumes you stepped away and starts a fresh session rather than counting the idle gap.
If you close the tab or browser while a segment is still focused, that final in-progress session isn't recorded — only completed focus-to-blur pairs count.
Viewing time spent on a segment
Once you've spent measurable time on a segment, a small clock badge (🕗) appears next to its target text. Hover over it to see the exact time in MMm:SSs format (for example, 00m:37s):
If you're a Project Manager or Account Admin looking at a work unit someone else translated, the same tooltip also shows who the time belongs to:
Viewing total time spent on a work unit
The information icon (ℹ️) next to the progress bar — in both the work unit header and the Editor's top bar — opens a summary tooltip with word, segment, and character counts, plus a Time spent section:
The time shown here is in HH:MM:SS format and adds up every completed segment session in that work unit. If more than one person has worked on the same work unit, a Project Manager or Account Admin sees a separate row per person; a linguist logged in with the Vendor role only ever sees their own row here — that restriction is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the interface, so there's no way for a Vendor account to see a teammate's time on the same file.
Important behavior and edge cases
The badge can appear before a task is delivered. As soon as a segment has a completed focus-to-blur session, its time badge shows — you don't need to wait until the whole task is delivered to see it.
Delivered work units keep their time data, but stop recording new sessions once the task is delivered and the Editor switches to read-only.
Read-only or locked segments don't display a time badge, since no new focus/blur activity can happen on them.
Refocusing a segment adds to its total instead of restarting it — if you translate a segment, move on, then come back later to tweak it, both sessions count toward the same badge.
Troubleshooting
I don't see a clock badge on my segment. The badge only appears once a completed focus-to-blur session has been recorded for that segment. If you're still actively working in it, or if you left the segment in an unusual way (closing the browser tab while it was focused, for instance), that particular session may not have been captured.
I can see my own time but not a teammate's. This is expected if you're logged in with the Vendor role — only Project Managers and Account Admins can see time spent by other users on the same work unit.
The total looks lower than I expected. Very short (under half a second) or very long (over 2 hours) individual sessions are filtered out as outliers, and idle gaps over 60 minutes start a fresh session instead of counting the gap. If you frequently get interrupted mid-segment, your recorded time reflects only the active editing time, not wall-clock time.
Quick reference
Action | Where to find it |
See time spent on a segment | Hover the 🕗 badge next to the segment's target text |
See total time on a work unit | Click the ℹ️ icon in the work unit header or Editor top bar, under Time spent |
Segment time format |
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Work unit time format |
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Who sees other users' time | Project Managers and Account Admins only — not the Vendor role |
Applies to | Translation Editor, Review Editor |
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