Released on = September 5, 2006, 2:04 am

Press Release Author = John Derrick

Industry = Human Resources

Press Release Summary = How your staff waste your time and money surfing the Web at
work. Learn how to prevent your employees from doing unauthorized stuff at work.

Press Release Body = While the economy is booming and more and more organisations go
online every day, employees do not always utilise the Internet resources the way
they are intended to. Many of their work time activities are even not related in any
way with their actual job, making their work time inefficient and labour costs more
expensive. According to the research, some of 37% of employees surf the Web at work
for personal reasons, ignoring corporate policies and Internet usage limitations
expressed by the employer.
While not all work time surfers visit harmful sites, some 70% of them confessed they
have been visiting adult content sites or doing adult related email correspondence
and chatting. A serious threat has arisen for company owners and managers, because
non-work related employees' activities not only decrease overall performance, but
also destroy morale and defeat motivation. This can have a huge impact on
organisational success when not dealt with.
There is also a strong motivation among business owners and managers to combat these
risks and to prevent their staff from improper Internet usage. But if they want to
tackle these threats efficiently there has to be not only policy, but also a tool in
place to enforce this policy. As companies are beginning to take action the IT and
HR managers install surveillance and access control to track Internet usage.
More and more US and UK service companies install monitoring software only to
discover, a number of employees visit sexually oriented sites regularly while at
work and more and more employees are fired for Internet misuse.
By installing surveillance and reporting tools such as statlook, SpectorPro and
WebWatcher the employer is in control of what's being done at the network computer.
There's another tool statlook going one step further that combines total
surveillance features with work time and employee performance analysis, which gives
the full insight into the employee activities at work.
"You can't manage it, if you can't measure it" and indeed you cannot manage your HR
efficiently without an efficient measurement tool.


Web Site = http://www.statlook.com

Contact Details = CH-8008 Zurich
Switzerland
+448458688798