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Staff comparison – employer’s best card

Published on June 22, 2008 in Employee Monitoring. 0 Comments Tags: .

Your employees are the heart and soul of your business. As much as you?d like to be in control of the business and see it going in the right direction, much of it is in the hands of your employees. As an employer, you try to give those working on your side as much as you can in order to see your business flourish. You give advice and tools for the job, and if you are as modern as your competitors, most of your employees probably have access to a computer. And in fact, if you want to know just how your employees are handling their work, examining their work history through the computer is one of your best options.

Many computer logging software programs are available on the market today. Why are these programs excellent for any employer? It allows you to keep track of statistics, files, keystrokes and other documents that your employees are using on their computer. With multiple computers installing this software, you can keep track, side-by-side, of your employees computer activities.

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This is especially benefiting if you are considering giving someone a raise, or if someone, unfortunately, needs to be cut from your workforce. Say you have two employees. By tracking their computer work with computer log software, you can compare their work productivity.

Employee #1 is typing 2000 words per hour, only visits sites that helps his work research, and only stops using the computer during break time. Employee #2, however, is only typing 750 words an hour, visits several non-work related websites, and it looks like he stops using the computer a couple times every hour. Using these tools and employer can know who will get fired and who is ready for that promotion.

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How can your employees’ internet activity damage the company?

Published on February 14, 2008 in Employee Monitoring. 1 Comment Tags: , .

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?

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Cyclope Employee Surveillance – time tracking software

Published on December 21, 2007 in Employee Monitoring. 0 Comments Tags: .

?How much time are my employees actually working and how much unproductive time is spent during work time period?? ?This is what every company owner is asking itself. The ingenious idea of developing an advanced employee time tracking software tool was a real success.

Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution can be considered a time tracking business software but also as the standard by which other time and billing products are measured. Cyclope Employee offers a powerful and innovative feature set that can be found in no other product.

The reports provided are easy to read and inform managers about total active hours, overtime periods, total time spent online and other useful data. The screenshot below shows you how your report will look like.?

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The activities are recorded with the highest accuracy hours and minutes spent by each individual or group of employees.

Let?s take as example the Amplusnet-ec user. We can see that the total time spent on the computer by this user was 8 hours and 49 minutes. From all this time, the user was active 7:06 hours, while the rest of the time – 1:43 hours- he was idle. Based on these results, we can conclude that the user Amplusnet-ec was active only 81% of the total time.?

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