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Bureau of Labor statistics: productivity decreases while costs increase

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Eli Ghidiu
on March 11, 2009
in Misc and Productivity
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For the fourth quarter of 2008, the news is not so pleasant regarding productivity and costs in the economical sectors. It seems that the financial crisis involving cut jobs, made economy sensitive and vulnerable.

The statistics for this period made by the US Bureau of Labor indicates that productivity cut down at a 0.4 percent, while costs increased at 5.7 percent more than the prior predictions. The problems will continue to appear as long as companies will cut jobs in order to reduce costs. In this way, the labor markets will confront with more problems because consumer will limit its further spending magnifying the risk this recession may be even worst.

This productivity decreasing firstly surprised the economists who were expecting an increase with 1.5 percents and not a 0.4 percent decrease. As a consequence, a revision for the annual rate is required considering that the estimated dates indicate rises of 3.2 percents. A comparison chart for all sectors is available on the official site of Bureau of Labor, starting with 2004 until 2008 and the differences are significant. Unfortunately at this moment no one can certainly say how and when this recession will end.

When exactly was a web site accessed?

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admin
on November 26, 2008
in Employee Monitoring
. 1 Comment

One of the questions our support department frequently receives from Cyclope Employee Surveillance Solution evaluators is how can the application’s administrators know when exactly a web site was accessed. Most of the evaluators that have this question are working in companies that allow staff to do private stuff in their lunch hour, so, this is the reason they need to know when employees are accessing particular sites.

By default, Cyclope-Employee Monitoring informs managers about how long a website was visited for. Regarding the exact hours of the visit, there is no report that will show you directly this data (when a web site was visited). You have to modify – for the monitored user the working scheduler from overtime option. For example I want to see if one of my employees has visited a web sites during 9am-10am time:

I go to Statistics / Overview and I modify the Define working hours (as from 9am to 10am)

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