Why Do I Need Employee Activity Monitoring Software?
Abuse of Internet privileges and inappropriate usage of computer - and, as a result, low productivity, have become a major problem of any business today.
In a survey of 1439 workers by Vault.com, an online analyst firm, 37% admitted to surfing constantly at work, 32% surfed a few times a day, and 21 % surfed a few times a week. Specifically: accessing pornography (42%), online chatting (13%), gaming (12%), sports (8%), investing (7%), and shopping at work (7%).
And these numbers are only about Internet abuse - while there is a lot of other ways employee can waste their time and your money - playing games, chatting in instant messengers (like MSN Messenger, Yahoo messenger or ICQ, using P2P application to download music, movies and software (often pirated), and maybe even "teleworking" for some other company, to get "extra buck".
If you feel that your company is experiencing low employee productivity due to abuse of internet or other inappropriate employee activity at their working computer - you should consider taking some counter-measures. First of all, you need information. What your employees do at their PC, which websites they visit and what programs use. And, in overall - how much do they work and how much do they "goof"? This is what computer surveillance and activities tracking software is needed for.
Using it, you can watch employee's screen (often "live" - in real time, like in Employee Inspector), check the list of programs employee is curretly running (to understand what he is busy with currently), and collect other data on his activity - which can be later viewed in form of historical reports (weekly, monthly and so on). You can monitor employee in stealth mode, or in "aware" mode. Latter approach will have another beneficial effect, in turn: your employee will know that he's being watched, and won't let himself to "lounge" - and increased employee motivation will increase his productivity.
So, I need software for my employees' appraisal... Why Employee Inspector?
Employee Inspector is easy to install and use software, which will help you to be always aware of your employees activity. You'll be able to look, in real-time (just like with a surveillance camera), at any of your employees' PC screen - to get an overall impression what they are doing currently - and to have "hard data" on hands, you'll get brief statistical reports, summarizing employee's activity for a time period (how much time he was actively working at his PC, which websites did he visit, which programs did he use most, and so on).
Frequently Asked Questions:
1. Isn't such surveillance software a spyware?
2. Is it legal to monitor employee's activity on his computer?
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