INTERNET MONITORING

Internet Monitoring

Internet Monitoring

Internet Monitoring

Internet monitoring helps employers get visual verification of employee Internet activity. According to the latest surveys, the average worker spends over an hour a day visiting shopping sites, sending and receiving personal email, viewing porn and doing other non-work related activities. As a result, companies are losing thousands of dollars.

Internet monitoring with Work Examiner is ideal for safeguarding your business. It can tell you which employee spends the most time browsing the sites, what sites they visit, and when they do it. You can get this information at any moment in real time. It's also possible to limit access to the internet by setting up a list of websites and time slots within which these sites can be visited.

Electronic communications such as e-mail and the internet improve employee productivity and efficiency. It is no wonder that according to Andrew Schulman the author of The Extent of Systematic Monitory of Employee E-mail and Internet Use, as many as 40 million American workers, which is nearly 1/3 of the entire United States workforce, have Internet and / or e-mail access at work (Townsend 2001). In addition, according to the annual American Management Association survey of Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance there are more than three-quarters of major U.S. firm record and review employee communication and activities on the job, including their phone calls, e-mail, Internet connection, and computer files. The issues of monitoring have been heavily argued due to cases where employees have lost their jobs as a result of companies monitoring their usage of e-mail and internet access.

For example, in order to gain security in airports everyone needs to give up some of their privacy. Can you imagine an airport without any metal detectors, or without a bag x-ray? It would be a disaster, right? By letting someone see what is in your bags, what you are going to carry on the plane, and now even what is in your shoes, may prevent many things such as September 11th from reoccurring. How about in the workplace? Can you give up some of your privacy for greater reasons? This issue may be irrelevant to us right now but it will prove to be an important factor in our lives in the near future as we will be working ourselves. As of right now, according to the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the employer has the right to monitor all e-mail traffic and Internet surfing that occurs in the company. Even though many people argue against such actions, I believe that the company should always have the right to monitor its employees.

Internet Filtering

The internet is becoming an essential part of every day life. In order to adequately prepare our children for the challenges of tomorrow, internet access needs to be an integral part of education. As beneficial as the internet is, it also poses many problems and challenges for education institutions. High school districts need a viable solution that will filter web ...