Researches showed that up to 3% of company annual revenue is spent on printing activities. The new version of Cyclope Enterprise Printer Monitor, which includes new features and improved reports, will help companies save up to 30% of these printing costs assuring effective print management.
The new version comes with great new features, reports and enhancements. Here are some of the new product’s features:
- possibility to preview print jobs content before sending it to the printer
- pause or lock all new print jobs
- define printing cost for every printer
Continue reading ‘Create printing rules in your company with version 4.0 of Cyclope - Print Management Software’
Protection of intellectual property and confidential information leakage issue has become one of the biggest security headaches for companies around the world. Now, it is very simple for employees to copy confidential files on diskettes, CD / DVDs, USB flash drives or any other similar drives. And technology’s evolution plays an important role here too.
Now, it’s time for managers to prevent confidential information from leaving the company. The new version of Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution, version 5.0, comes with a new report that helps managers to monitor data transfer both from fixed and removable devices. The “File Activity” report provides information about all created, modified, copied or deleted documents and files.
Existing customers can upgrade to this version while other interested companies can download and evaluate the application for free for 15 days.
2009 was a tough year, especially from the perspective of economics. As a consequence of the economics there was a “bad effect” which spread within all important sectors and departments striking all companies from small ones to large ones. There were drastic measures taken in order to face the financial crisis. Employees were requested higher productivity and there was a better control over their activity.
In 2009, 54% of US companies have decided to block social networks at work and 8% have already fired employees because of the use of Facebook during working hours.
Cyclope-Series has made a study on 200 employees monitored* with a non-invasive employee monitoring software to see which the trend of the internet usage within a company was. The study was conducted during June 1, 2009 – December 31, 2009 and dates were provided from more companies.
• Employees are checking personal e-mail up to 5 times per day during working hours*
• 24% of employees spend more than one hour on social networks during working time
• Facebook is the most popular social network and 90% of the employees are logging periodically into their accounts from work Continue reading ‘Internet usage at work – statistics for 2009′
So here it is! Christmas is knocking on our doors and it’s time to enjoy vacation and get fresh forces for the New Year. Cyclope-Series team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We thank our evaluators and users for their feedback and for being loyal and we hope the New Year will bring increased productivity and many benefits for your business.
Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year!
PS: As we are also on vacation until January 4, 2010 the answers to your e-mails might be slightly delayled. But, we want to assure you that everybody will get an answer as soon as possibe. Thank you for understanding.
Is your productivity slipping for one reason or another? From time to time you may feel like you are not as productive as you were in the past – this is quite common. Although common, you do not want this to last too long. If it does, many days or weeks (or longer) may go by without you getting your work done.
The million dollar question is: how can I get back on track if my productivity begins to slip? Everybody is different, but here are three things you should consider:
1. Go back to what has worked in the past. For instance, maybe you were working longer days in the past but recently decided to cut back. If this has led to less productivity on the job, you need to go back to your old ways for the time being. There is nothing you can do that cannot be undone in the future.
2. Know what changed. As noted above, any change could lead to less productivity which can turn into subsequent issues. If you know what you changed you can then do one of two things: tweak your new plan, or as mentioned in tip number one, scrap it altogether and go back to the way that things used to be. Continue reading ‘How to get back on track when your productivity slips’
Working with a team, big or small, can be a lot of fun. Of course, this can lead to disaster if your productivity begins to slip. Just because you are working with others does not mean that you should be passing off your work. Along with this, you need to make sure that you never fade into the background. For a team to be successful, no matter what the project, everybody needs to do their part and pull their weight.
Here are five tips for staying productive when working with a team:
1. Know your role. Before you ever get started every team member will probably be assigned a particular responsibility. You need to know your role and take it very seriously. This goes along with doing your part. If you concentrate on your part of the job everything else will begin to fall into place. This subject has already been debated in a recent post and we have seen how one can improve team performance by simply knowing its role.
2. Do not be afraid to ask team members for help. Many people think that this is a sign of weakness – nothing could be further from the truth. It often times takes help from another to not only complete your job, but to stay productive while doing so.
Continue reading ‘Staying Productive when working with a Team’
Winter holidays are coming and people start to spend more and more time searching for Christmas presents for their friends and families. “Avoid the Christmas crowds and do your Christmas shopping from home this year!” this is how most online shopping sites ads sound like. And this wouldn’t be a bad thing at all if we wouldn’t consider the CareerBuilder survey which concluded that more than half of employees who have Internet access at work say they will shop for holiday gifts from the office.
While online shopping may be far more efficient than braving the crowds at lunch hour or after work time, employee online shopping at work can compromise both security and productivity. There are two issues that both the employees and the employers have to be aware of for the good running of the company. Continue reading ‘Half of employees will do holiday shopping at work’
So, you have the luxury of working from home? Many people who are self-employed work from the comfort of their home, day after day. The same holds true for some professionals, such as salesmen. While this is a huge benefit in many ways, ask anybody who has ever worked from home and they will tell you that it can be difficult to stay productive.
Here are four productivity tips aimed to help work at home professionals to achieve efficiency in their home office:
1. Have a to-do list. This is far and away the best way to stay productive. If your to-do list shows you what need to be done you can make sure that you move through it from start to finish, no matter what comes up. Be sure to include all important tasks on your list, ranked out from top to bottom based on which ones are most important.
Continue reading ‘Productivity Tips for Work at Home Professionals’
“Nobody’s perfect, but a team can be 
”. Because this is my favorite saying about teamwork and because this is perfectly true, I was thinking to provide it more attention.
Let’s take a quick view over the teamwork definition (provided by Wikipedia): “Teamwork is a joint action by two or more people, in which each person contributes with different skills and express his or her individual interests and opinions to the unity and efficiency of the group in order to achieve common goals”.
The fact that every human being is unique is a well known fact. Every employee has its personality, has specific skills and has always something new to learn. Let’s face it: nobody’s perfect and nobody knows everything. Continue reading ‘Improve team performance by simply knowing your role’
Everyone has faced at least once a difficult boss and maybe, some of you were able to pass over or to manage the situation while others felt frustrated, insignificant and maltreated. I think it is important to know how to deal with a situation like this even if sometimes you have your part of fault.
Here are some tips that might help you to get over difficult situations:
1. Don’t yell and overreact. It’s enough that one person is yelling in a confrontation. If there are two persons, yelling, then there is no way to remediate the situation or to understand with each other. No matter how bad the situation is, keep your voice down and calm. The chances to solve the problem will increase significantly.
2. Listen and then explain. Just wait for the other person to tell all the problems, and only after he/she finishes the complain, you can start explaining your point of view. Otherwise you will jump into conclusions too fast and there are chances to waste a lot of time trying to solve a problem you do not know exactly (or to solve only one part of that problem). Continue reading ‘How to deal a conflict situation with your boss’
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