Employee Monitoring Software

What do employers want to monitor?

Work-time employee monitoring is legal as long as the computers, phones or other working resources belong to the employers. Mostly, employers want to read the employee’s mails, listen their phones, track their internet use and application use.

A 2005 survey by the American Management Association found that three-fourths of employers monitor their employees' web site visits in order to prevent inappropriate surfing such as visiting sexually explicit sites, game sites, and social-networking sites like Facebook on company time. Almost a third of those who said they monitor their employees have fired someone for inappropriate Web surfing. And 65% use software to block connections to web sites deemed off limits for employees. About a third track keystrokes and time spent at the keyboard. Just over half of employers review and retain electronic mail messages.

Since most jobs are done by computer, installing employee monitoring software is the most commonly used employee monitoring method at present.

Is employee monitoring legal?

You may be thinking that employee monitoring is illegal because it offends the worker's privacy, however, for most part, employee monitoring is completely legal. For example, in USA, only Delaware and Connecticut require employers to notify employees of monitoring. That is to say, in other states, employers can monitor employees as they like. In fact, most employers will inform employee monitoring thing in order to avoid unnecessary troubles. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986 and recent case law provide some guidance that employee monitoring is legal.

Below is the reasons given in the Defense Counsel Journal to protect employer's interests.

• (1) The work is done at the employer's place of business;
• (2) The employer owns the equipment;
• (3) The employer has an interest in monitoring employee activity to ensure the quality of work; and
• (4) The employer has the right to protect property from theft and fraud.

Employee monitoring software

Employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy centralized log viewing via one central networked PC.

In 2001, according to a study released by the Denver-based Privacy Foundation, worldwide sales of employee monitoring software are estimated at $140 million a year, or about $5.25 per monitored employee per year. And the business of employee monitoring software has been growing steadily all the time though the finance crisis broke out in 2007 and it has not ended. With the help of employee monitoring software, company can improves employee productivity and efficiency and protect business secrets during more and more intensified commercial competition.

SurveilStar employee monitoring software

SurveilStar is an outstanding employee monitoring software which records every detail of computer and Internet activities including program activities, document operations, emails, chats and instant messages, web sites, and many more.

In 2001, according to a study released by the Denver-based Privacy Foundation, worldwide sales of employee monitoring software are estimated at $140 million a year, or about $5.25 per monitored employee per year. And the business of employee monitoring software has been growing steadily all the time though the finance crisis broke out in 2007 and it hasn’t ended. With the help of employee monitoring software, company can improves employee productivity and efficiency and protect business secrets during more and more intensified commercial competition.

The SurveilStar employee monitoring software offers a 30-day free trial for up to 5 computers. Do not hesitate to try you are going to deploy employee monitoring software.