Employee Monitoring
Why does the small and medium business (SMB) need Employee Monitoring?
Your employees are all at their desks, tapping away at the keyboards. How many of them are working, but how many of them are on mySpace? The fact is, without some sort of surf control and employee monitoring software, you just don’t know.
One of the downsides of the web is that it has made it very easy to carry on a social life, answer emails, shop, or entertain yourself at your work desk. For many businesses, the estimated productivity loss from personal web usage on company time is staggering.
Good employee monitoring software allows you to take back control of your resources.
What is Employee Monitoring?
From wikipeida.com:
Content-control software, also known as censorware or web filtering software, is a term for software designed and optimized for controlling what content is permitted to a reader, especially when it is used to restrict material delivered over the Web. Content-control software determines what content will be available on a particular machine or network; the motive is often to prevent persons from viewing content which the computer’s owner(s) or other authorities may consider objectionable; when imposed without the consent of the user, content control can constitute censorship.
Common use cases of such software, include parents who wish to limit what sites their children may view from home computers, schools performing the same function with regard to computers found at school, and employers restricting what content may be viewed by employees while on the job.
Frequent subjects of content-control software include web sites that, according to the company providing the control:
- Include illegal content with reference to the legal domain being served by that company.
- Promote, enable, or discuss hacking, software piracy, criminal skills, or other potentially illegal acts.
- Include sexually explicit content, such as pornography, erotica, and non-erotic discussions of sexual topics such as sexuality or sex.
- Promote, enable, or discuss lifestyles which some might consider immoral, including promiscuity, sexual orientations other than heterosexuality, or other alternative lifestyles or sexual activity outside of marriage.
- Contain violence or other forms of graphic or “extreme” content.
- Promote, enable, or discuss bigotry or hate speech.
- Promote, enable, or discuss gambling, recreational drug use, alcohol, or other activities frequently considered to be vice.
- Are unlikely to be related to a student’s studies, an employee’s job function, or other tasks for which the computer in question may be intended.
- Are contrary to the interests of the authority in question, such as web sites promoting organized labor or criticizing a particular company or industry.
- Promote or discuss politics, religion, or other topics.
- Include social networking opportunities that might expose children to predators.
Content-control software can also be used to block Internet access entirely.
Contact CopiaTECH to see how we can help you today with employee monitoring products.