Not long ago WebSense announce that they received some great accolades from SC Magazine for their WebSense Express. Of course this is just one of many awards they have earned.
The SC Magazine review reports that “Websense Express shows that small businesses on a tight budget no longer have to rely on scaled-down Web-content filtering solutions… […]

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Employee monitoring is all about striking a balance between protecting your company’s information assets and not going overboard to the point where employees feel alienated and you end up violating their privacy rights. Balance can best be accomplished when organizations inform employees of the purpose of monitoring activities and set the employees’ privacy expectations by adopting reasonable and consistently enforced monitoring policies…

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CopiaTECH Summary on Employee Monitoring
1. Start Slow - block obvious non business related sites like mySpace.com, Facebook.com, adult traffic, gaming, etc. before you worry about monitoring keystrokes and filtering email!
2. Be Open - let everyone know that you are going to implement a filtering policy, and give people thirty days to adjust. During that time, […]

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A survey of nearly 3,000 white collar workers shows that many of them spend a little QT time with games, even while on the job.
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Employees wasting time?
Who knew, no really these stats are staggering. 24% of 2842 whote collar employees polled admitted to gaming on the job.
Let’s break down the numbers. […]

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Say goodbye to the water cooler, cyber slacking is in vogue. Here are some stats and good slack links.
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Why companies use employee monitoring software
Here is a great article on Yahoo that talks about “cyber-slacking” as a way employees waste time, make up for under compensation, relax to hit it hard or […]

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There’s a lot of articles around about how to make your time more productive. But some days I really don’t want to be productive, and while I should work, instead I find myself killing time online.
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Last line have you scared?
It should, because that is the attitude of employees from time to […]

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An “anti-piracy” program recently announced its first “win.” An analyst firm has agreed to pay up a $300,000 settlement after an “insider” informed the SIIA that the firm passed around news clips to employees. This is very typical. Many companies employ news clipping services and receive copies of relevant news articles, but do not expect […]

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“I stopped just short of Super Glue,” said Gower, vice president of information systems at Martin, Fletcher, an Irving, Texas-based medical staffing firm. “For IT administrators, our job is not just setting up a computer for an employee to do their job. Our job is to safeguard the information of a company and make it […]

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 Facebook labelled a $5 billion waste of time
Richard Cullen of SurfControl, an internet filtering company, estimates the site may be costing Australian businesses $5 billion a year. “Our analysis shows that Facebook is the new, and costly, time-waster,” he said. The report calculates that if an employee spends an hour each day on Facebook, it […]

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Surfing Monitoring Software is a valuable tool available for employers to monitor their workers internet usage and thus reduce wasted time and increase overall productivity in the workplace. Games, porn, shopping, and chats are some of the many diversions that employees often devout their time to, wasting on average two hours EACH day of company […]

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