- Computers and Internet connection is company property
- Employee productivity losses
- Employee morale is low if they are not doing what
they're supposed to be doing
- Catch trade secrets which might leave the company
illegally
- Protect the business from sexual harassment defamation
or illegal activity lawsuits
- Other Reasons to Monitor - Top
- Maintenance and Management of Systems
- Application and Network Troubleshooting
- Storage and Bandwidth Capacity Planning
- Protect your company from Legal Liabilities
- Good for Employee Investigations
You will want to monitor your employees to see what they
are actually doing at work while you are away. While on
the Internet, they have access to e-mail, instant message,
stock trading, e-commerce/shopping, personal websites which
could be hosting illegal software/child porn. Most important
is the time wasted by employees when they know what they
should be doing. Studies show that employees wasting time
and resources cost business on average $35 million each
year per 1,000 employees.
- Reasons Not to Monitor Employees
- Top
NUMBER ONE REASON NOT TO MONITOR
If you haven't ever thought about monitoring your employee's
computer and Internet use then Employee Monitoring software
is probably not for you. Also, some employees no matter
how hard you try to enforce a new policy, might always
see it as an invasion of privacy. Fortunately, Employee
Monitoring software allows you to exclude computers with
ease. (See example.)
- Other Reasons to Monitor Not to Monitor -
- If company policy is not clear then you should consider
not monitoring
What might happen if policy is unclear:
- Bad morale
- Micro-management will make employees feel bad,
insecure and unappreciated while at work
- Managers and CEOs must evaluate whether or not it
is vital to the business
- Employees are not hurting anything by using the computers
occasionally for personal use
- Typical Scenarios Why Companies Don't Monitor
- Top
HAVE YOU HEARD SOMEONE SAY?
"We don't monitor our employees but if we wanted
to we have the ability to do so."
"I trust all of my employees and everything is
just fine."
"Who would in my company would I monitor, nobody
would ever waste company time?"
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