Monitor internet usage - protect your company, your money and build a good working environment.
Internet usage monitoring - how can it help you.
Most of employees know how difficult it is to find a good job. But what employers know - this is even more difficult to find a good employee.What is a good job? It is simple - good salary, stable company, nice and friendly environment, interesting tasks.
And who is a good employee? Let's try to define - a good employee is professional, cooperative and enthusiastic, it is someone who you can rely to, who understands everything from one word, who can discuss problems and propose solutions, who can recognize its own mistakes, oh and also has a good common sense and intuition! I hope I did not forget anything important :-) Of course this is not a complete definition, I am sure employers might expect more.
And yes, it is not easy to find such an employee. Many people look very enthusiastic on a job interview, but after they simply lose their interest to the job they where looking for so hard. And everything looks good - the workplace, the salary. The most common issue - employees became not cooperative with time - they don't really work fast, the don't really want to understand tasks, they simply lose interest to the working process. Why? Because everything is good! Every next day looks like the previous one. And besides, now there is an Internet access available. And in Internet - there is so much interesting you can find. Some people can spend the whole days browsing. What is Internet for them? Communication, interesting information, games! Internet is a big issue now. Before, for example, when there was no TV, people would read more books. Same with Internet: if there was no Internet access available, employees would spend more time working.
And now you as an employer, you have the task to solve. You see the problem - there are employees who spend too much time in the Internet or doing other things not related to their work. You start thinking if you should monitor internet usage in your company. But you don't want your company to turn into a strict military organization. Why? Because, for example, enthusiastic employees will lose their enthusiasm and will simply run away from you. Because, in general, you understand that there are good professionals in your company, there are less professional but cooperative employees and there are employees who don't really work well - not everyone is so bad, right? Besides, you understand that people need their time to relax and if they want to browse Internet a bit - it is OK. Also you don't want to break anyone's privacy. But still - you need to protect your company and your money somehow.
So, what all the above means? It means that you still need to monitor internet usage, but you need such a solution that shows you the main negative trends in the company. Like, for example, you might want to find out, who in your company spends too much time browsing the Internet or who spends more than 2 hours in the Internet. Or you might want to define, what are the most popular Internet resources not related to the working process (some employees still might need Internet to solve work related tasks, right?). You don't need to monitor every keystroke or screens. All you need - is to be able to find out trends that affect productivity in the company. Then you might want to generate reports and to send them out to all departments. This will be a good stimulus for all your employees, who think that all days are the same and boring.
WorkTime - monitor internet usage in your company and create a better working environment!
NesterSoft Inc., Sep 25, 2009
