For Employee Monitoring

1. For Employee Monitoring By: Tabitha Seehousen Section: 1055-21 August 11, 2010

2. What is Employee Monitoring? • Supervising activities in progress to ensure… • They are on course • On schedule in meeting • Completing the objective and performance tasks. I’m watching YOU!!

3. What does an Employer Expect? • Make sure the employee is doing a good job. • The employee is not doing anything un-related to work. • Respect/Trust that the employee is doing what is expected of them. • Completeness of a given task.

4. Reasons for Monitoring • Computer and Internet connection is company property. • Employee productivity losses • Employee morale is low( not doing what is expected). • Catch trade secrets. • Protect the business. • Maintenance and Management of software • Application and Network Troubleshooting. • Storage and Bandwidth Capacity Planning. • Good for Employee Investigations.

5. 4 Types of Monitoring • Telephone • Computer • Electronic Mail/ Voice Mail • Video Think about your every move!

6. Telephone Monitoring • Can my employer listen to my phone calls at work? • YES!!! Employers may monitor call with clients/ customers for reason of quality control. • Not every business is aware of this requirement… • So the calls will be monitored without warning.

7. Computer Monitoring • Employers can use computer software • Which enables them to see what’s in the employee’s computer terminal. • Computer monitoring technique • Allows employers to keep track of the amount of time spend away from the computer.

8. Electronic Mail and Voice Mail • If an electronic mail (email) system is used at a company • The employer owns it and is allowed to review its content. • Messages sent within a company • As well as those that are sent from your terminal can be subject to monitoring by employer.

9. Video Monitoring • Can employers use this in the workplace? • YES!!! It’s a common method of deterring theft, maintaining security, and monitoring employees. • Video Camera • Capture audio recording

10. Little Brother It’s a software package that allows employers to monitor their worker’s internet use. It employs a database of 45,000 web sites. Productive Un Productive Neutral

11. Example of Employee Monitoring

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