Monthly Archive for June, 2009

How Employee Monitoring Can Boost Employee Morale

happy-employeesMany businesses know that monitoring their employees can offer a number of benefits to the company and yet they are hesitant to do it because of fears that employee monitoring will upset employees. There is certainly the risk of this when employee monitoring is done incorrectly. However, it is actually possible to use employee monitoring to boost employee morale. This allows the business to thrive not only because of the increased productivity that employee monitoring creates but also because improved morale around the office will naturally improve the company’s bottom line.

The main reason that employees don’t handle it well when new monitoring solutions are instituted is because they feel that they are being watched like children instead of being trusted to simply do their work. They resent this Continue reading ‘How Employee Monitoring Can Boost Employee Morale’

How to prevent data breach in your company

ConfidentialConsidering the continuously evolution of technology, businesses are now able to track lots of information about customers, prospects, employees, competitors etc. But, as every good thing is most probably followed by a bad (or at least less good) thing, along with those data gathering capabilities the concern for privacy, safety and security has also increased.

Now, there are a set of questions that rise up in a manager’s mind: What kinds of information does your business gather and use? Who has access to these data? What might it be used for? These are normal questions that have to be answered by every manager interested in having a healthy and stable business by preventing confidential information from leaving the company. When consumers, employees or partners give you personal information they must be assured that you will use it accurately and responsibly. And beyond that, you must also comply with a wide range of privacy protection rules and regulations. Continue reading ‘How to prevent data breach in your company’