Employee Monitoring

[Niclo Iste]

Spy programs are a poor solution for a manager/supervisor who should be keeping an eye on his workers and their production rates. Rather than waste time and resources maintaining monitoring software they should hire a replacement.

Side note. In between tickets or pauses in a work project I "surf the net" for work related input such as IT reports, security bulletins, and tech news. I'm sure the shoddy manager who needs a spy program to make up for his deficiencies wouldn't be able to discern that I'm actually looking up data to help me better do my job. It's a nice concept but it's a tool useless to those who do their job well and dangerous in the hands of ones who don't know how to manage properly. Maybe I'm old fashioned but results should give a good idea of if anyone is doing their job or not.

If one is serious about trimming the slack time off of employees one should implement proper measures and securities to prevent it from happening in the first place. Domain blocks, mail filters, firewalls, profile permissions in Active Directory, and much more. It's a lot easier to keep people in line if they don't have the opportunity to goof off in the first place.