Employee Monitoring: Keeping Employees from Wasting Company Time

Monitoring employees’ Web usage is often framed as a security issue-avoiding lawsuits and controlling trade secrets. But it can also keep them focused on work.

By John Adams

Technology that allows bosses to peek into how workers are using the Internet and email, call it “executive” spyware, is the third rail in corporate security. Nobody likes to be spied on, and most execs don’t readily volunteer that they use monitoring software-or even that they want to use such technology.

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