Does Privacy exist at Work?
December 15th, 2007It could be difficult to manage a number of employees who have PCs at their desks. You look at your people. It might look like a very busy room. And at the same time they may be simply chatting online or reading news. Is spying really a viable option? Or possibly there could be more options around that deal with internet monitoring?
In the past the choice for supervisors who wanted some control was limited. Only spyware was available for computer monitoring . Spyware is the name for computer programs that make screenshots, copy text entered from the keyboard, control traffic. With spyware you have more control than you would want. What happens is that workers begin having bad thoughts about you. You can lose respect of your people, because you are effectively intruding into their privacy.
There's good news too. We have developed a special program that effectively resolves the issue. It is a system of internet 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.
Currently we are offering Work Examinor for internet monitoring in two different packages. Both versions supervise application jobs, websites browsed, how much time they spend doing what tasks. 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.
Coming to the question of honesty using our software application you do not get screen shots or some sensitive data you do not need. Instead you get cleverly crafted employee monitoring reports regarding the time and application use. More importantly, this system encourages self monitoring and more proper time use by your underlingsmotivates your workers to use work time more efficiently and self-monitor their own computer use.
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