Jira has no field level security, that means if a user has permission to view an issue, he can view all the issue fields including time tracking fields such as, "Remaining Estimate", "Original Estimate", "Time Spent". If your user base also contains your customers you may not want them to view how many hour you have spent on the issue, or your estimate fields. 

Starting with 2.25.0 release, WorklogPRO has capability to hide its time tracking related information from other users, such as "Worklog Panel" and "Time Tracking Panel". The add-on can also hide build-in time tracking information shown by Jira but this is not a 100% solution. A user with necessary technical knowledge may view time tracking information by using REST API of Jira or using some debugging techniques. 

This option is off by default and you have to enable it from add-on settings. You need Jira administrator permission to change add-on settings.


There are 3 different values for "Hide Time Tracking" configuration:


When this setting is turned on time tracking related information will be hidden from following locations: