How can your employees’ internet activity damage the company?

We are surrounded by technology, and the constant availability to get connected and chat up a storm is addictive. The ability extends from our household, to our school classrooms. People take the internet with them when they go to their child’s soccer game, and when they are grocery shopping. While all of this is quite common practice, and still harmful to society and our public interactions, there is one place where the extent of access is hurting us and our economy.

The office is one place where social media, chatting, file downloading, and image searches should not be taking place, but it is among the top places where people spend their time online. Business estimated that the total loss of production from employees that used the internet for personal use while on the clock is in the upper 700 BILLIONS of dollars!

If you are a manager or business owner that gives access to their employees to use the internet, you should realize they will use it even when they aren’t supposed to. Allowing employees to browse the net freely during lunch or break is considered a normal activity, however once that bell rings do you know that they will go back to doing their job?

There are lots of things you can do to prevent this kind of behavior while your employees are working. The most obvious of which it to strictly inform your employees that using the internet for purposes other than completing work tasks is strictly forbidden. This must be enforced as well. You lose work when employees browse the internet. If you slack on this, they will slack on their work.

Many sources offer software that allows you to view any internet transactions that go between the computers and the company’s server. These are excellent monitoring devices that can pinpoint who is using the internet, what are they viewing, what are they typing, and whether or not your employees are efficiently using their free access to the internet. Make it be known to your employees that you can see every little move they make with that mouse.

A complex solution for this is provided by Cyclope-Series.

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1 Response to “How can your employees’ internet activity damage the company?”


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    hese are excellent monitoring devices that can pinpoint who is using the computer internet.. wow

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