Work Monitoring on the Computer

Sun, Sep 3, 2006

Software, Technology

monitor-spyware.jpgAs companies grow, work monitoring can be more difficult to oversee the optimization of the operation of the whole company. In many cases, the more employees you have, the more possible cases of having employees spending their whole day doing nothing but chatting online, playing with their social networking sites like MySpace and Friendster, And in this case with the sheer volume of an increasing number of employees, keeping up with them alone can be a tedious task.

And to be able to catch up, this is where technology comes in. If you need to monitor employees if they may be working hard or playing hard at work, tracking software would be excellent way to check everyone out. Although I believe employees should still be given the time and space to give themselves breaks every once in a while from work and be given the freedom to check personal emails, or use Instant Messaging software or go on Social Networking sites or what not, but when these kind of activities get out of hand and go beyond what is acceptable where less work and more play is done, this sets a red flag on this employee.

And whenever you pass by a table of a employee and you see him/her on MySpace, and everyday you pass by, you see MySpace, I believe it is not right to judge that person as doing nothing but MySpace, maybe it can still be mere coincidence that whenver you pass by, that was the time the employee was on his 2 minute MySpace usage per day while the rest of his 8 hour work is spent on hard work.

With tracking software you will be able to monitor the usage very well so proving and disproving claims on working or not, can be done better. An excellent tracking software to track stuff like this would be SpectorSoft, they have been mentioned many times in various media outlets such as CNN, CBS, NBC, ABC, Wall Street Journal and more.

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Benj Arriola - who has written 141 posts on action online.

Started a career as a chemist. Worked in the industry and academe and pursued a master's degree in chemistry. Then one day, here I go, start a computer shop, then web company in 1999, won a few awards and just started a web career working on websites of various companies and making sure the websites work for them.

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