Balancing employees' privacy with the boss's right to know
Posted on December 15, 2007 by admin, under Hardware & Software.
It may be complex to manage a number of employees who have PCs at their desks. You may watch your employees. It could look like a very busy room. And at the same time they might be simply writing their blog or reading news. Will you get your hands on that dirty spyware? Or is there perhaps a more honest and transparent way of internet monitoring?
Some supervisors had to make hard choices in the past. They had to install spyware. Spyware is the name for computer programs that make screenshots, copy text entered from the keyboard, control traffic. So you get control. What happens is that people start having bad thoughts about you. Spying on people takes away their respect.
There is one solution that may help you out of this mess. It is a system of computer monitoring called Work Examiner. It allows for transparent system of monitoring and self monitoring that does not violate privacy, because it monitors the time spent online rather than traffic (unlike various proxies). The flexible reporting system produces a lot of very useful information that you would surely prefer to random print screens done while doing employee monitoring.
Currently we are offering Work Examinor for internet monitoring in two different packages. Both versions supervise application jobs, websites attended, how much time they spend doing what tasks. Both versions allow access restrictions to selected websites or applications. The Professional version allows for different access rights to employee statistic so that everybody has only the access to the data the have the right to see.
Returing to the sensitive issue of spyings using our program you do not get screen shots or some confidential data you do not need. Instead you get cleverly crafted employee monitoring reports regarding the time and application use. More importantly, this system encourages self monitoring and more effective time use by your underlingsEven better, this system inspires your workers to use work time more efficiently and self-monitor their own computer use.
Make sure to check it outTrial version is also available for download
