Balancing employees' privacy with the boss's right to know
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It might be quite a challenge to manage a number of employees who have PCs at their desks. You may watch your employees. Nobody just sits around. And at the same time they could be simply browsing porno sites or reading news. Will you get your hands on that dirty spyware? Or possibly there might be more options around that deal with computer monitoring?
Managers with principles had a complex time in the past. They had to install spyware. Spyware is the name for software applications that make screenshots, copy text the user inputs into their computer, observe traffic. So you get control. What happens is that workers begin having bad thoughts about you. You can lose respect of your people, because you are effectively breaking their privacy.
There's good news as well. We have produced a special program that effectively resolves the issue. 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). This gives a more useful result in terms of control.
You can go either for standard or pro version of our product. Both versions supervise application jobs, websites viewed, how much time they spend doing what jobs. 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.
Recalling the problem we started with, i.e. spying, you may see that using our software application you do not get screen shots or some confidential data you do not need. Instead you get cleverly crafted computer monitoring reports regarding the time and application use. More importantly, this system encourages self control and more effective time use by your underlingsmotivates your employees to use work time more efficiently and self-monitor their own computer use.
Make sure to check it out!A free to try version is also available for download