Employee-tracking tech goes too far: How managers can do better

Overuse of employee-monitoring tools can lead to serious outcomes, including mistrust, privacy concerns, low morale, and an ...
Forbes

Three Best Practices For Implementing Employee-Monitoring Software With Hybrid Teams

Last year, Gartner estimated that 80% of companies would implement some form of employee-monitoring software, a noteworthy 50% increase in five years. I'm a vice president at an employee-monitoring ...
Small Business Computing

Monitoring Employee Internet Use: Is It Bad Business?

New employees at Hoffman Construction in Portland, Ore., receive a written policy that limits their personal use of the Internet during work hours. The policy says, among other things, that the ...
JD Supra

Government Cracking Down on Employee Monitoring Technology

Employers are increasingly leaning on technology to monitor employee productivity. Although the phenomenon is not new, the options for monitoring have certainly expanded. Now, businesses can choose ...
Computerworld

Study: Monitoring of employee e-mail, Web use escalates

According to a study released to day by the Denver-based Privacy Foundation, 14 million employees, or just over one-third of the Internet-connected workforce in the U ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Here’s what your boss can actually see on company Wi-Fi

As workplace surveillance tools become more prevalent, the use of company Wi-Fi for monitoring employee activities has raised ...
Network World

Stellar Internet Monitoring

Stellar Technologies offers its Stellar Internet Monitoring product as a way for companies to monitor employee Internet usage and policy violations. Stellar IM monitors instant messaging, but it is ...
Los Angeles Times

How your employer can keep track of your work at home

WASHINGTON — Since the pandemic and the rise in people working from home, employers’ use of employee-monitoring programs has been growing rapidly. Employers say they’re tracking workers’ activity ...
Reuters

Employee Monitoring and Surveillance

Employers frequently conduct electronic monitoring and surveillance of their employees to protect against employee misconduct, manage productivity, and increase workplace safety. In doing so, ...
Columbus Dispatch

'What are you all doing here?' Criticism as Columbus OKs tax-sharing deal with company

The Columbus City Council approved a new "jobs growth incentive agreement" Monday evening estimated to deliver $1.53 million over five years to Aware, a Columbus-based software firm that designs ...
JD Supra

New York Will Soon Require Employers to Disclose Employee Monitoring

On May 7, 2022, private employers—regardless of annual revenue or headcount—with a place of business in New York will have to provide all newly hired employees with written notice of the employer’s ...
ZDNet

Judges oppose monitoring of Internet use

A committee of federal judges on Monday pared down a proposal requiring judiciary staff to forfeit their right to online privacy in the workplace after lawmakers hotly criticized the measure. On the ...