Employee Monitoring:

Ask yourself how much company time your employees spend conducting personal business while at work? Are viruses and malware on your computers due to employee negligence?

The truth is your employees may be costing you thousands in wasted payroll, abuse of office supplies, and increased IT costs.

According to Salary.com via Inc.com:

 “The 2007 Wasting Time Survey by Salary.com, which asked 2,000 employees across all job levels about how they spend their working hours, found employees waste an average of 1.7 hours of an 8.5-hour workday. This represents a decline from last year, when workers reported wasting an average of 1.89 hours each day.” 

For a $15.00/hr employee, this could be as much as $6,630 per employee.

The next question is what can be done about it?

There are many Employee Monitoring solutions. Starting with the restriction of websites that can be visited. Employee monitoring software to provide you reports on what your employees are doing on your computer systems and how much time they spend doing it. Printable reports of employee activity are a useful tool when addressing performance and Human Resources issues.