Monitoring Employees
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The Impact of Monitoring Employment I wanted to discuss the technology used to monitor employees. Whether it be at the computer/workstation or on the cameras set around the workplace. More and more companies and corporations are implementing monitoring software such as Spector, Sonar, Spytech, and iSafe. All used in order to keep track of employees on what they are looking at, what they are working on, and how much time they do it. You start to wonder when it becomes too much. Or when does it wonder into invasion of privacy? Granted that while on the clock you are on your employers time and you are expected to perform what you where hired for. In this day and age there is always up and down time. And a ten minute break in between work may bring you to checking a status or looking up a curiosity that passed in your mind, or checking some new that has been floating around the office. But this sometimes is all it takes to lose your job. Powerful reasons exist to monitor employee online behavior at work. These reasons are compelling for many employers and understandable and have experienced it myself. In my own experience with electronic surveillance of employees, I watch employees with monitoring software, and they had been watching pornographic movies at work, stealing and breaking items, or simply missing scanning certain items. At my old job you had to clock in with a calendar and on top of that you were secretly monitored with when you logged in and out. Also what you looked at online also was monitored. Suspicious behavior by the employees in question prompted the review of electronic records. So, many employers have the capacity to use electronic surveillance of employees, and choose not to practice electronic surveillance. Some of the reasons they use the software to place employees under electronic surveillance at work like when productivity issues are an employer concern. The nature of the sites that employees visit concerns employers
The Impact of Monitoring Employment I wanted to discuss the technology used to monitor employees. Whether it be at the computer/workstation or on the cameras set around the workplace. More and more companies and corporations are implementing monitoring software such as Spector, Sonar, Spytech, and iSafe. All used in order to keep track of employees on what they are looking at, what they are working on, and how much time they do it. You start to wonder when it becomes too much. Or when does it wonder into invasion of privacy? Granted that while on the clock you are on your employers time and you are expected to perform what you where hired for. In this day and age there is always up and down time. And a ten minute break in between work may bring you to checking a status or looking up a curiosity that passed in your mind, or checking some new that has been floating around the office. But this sometimes is all it takes to lose your job. Powerful reasons exist to monitor employee online behavior at work. These reasons are compelling for many employers and understandable and have experienced it myself. In my own experience with electronic surveillance of employees, I watch employees with monitoring software, and they had been watching pornographic movies at work, stealing and breaking items, or simply missing scanning certain items. At my old job you had to clock in with a calendar and on top of that you were secretly monitored with when you logged in and out. Also what you looked at online also was monitored. Suspicious behavior by the employees in question prompted the review of electronic records. So, many employers have the capacity to use electronic surveillance of employees, and choose not to practice electronic surveillance. Some of the reasons they use the software to place employees under electronic surveillance at work like when productivity issues are an employer concern. The nature of the sites that employees visit concerns employers