Missy, the secretary, is passionately typing on the keyboard, maybe writing a business letter. However, there is a chance that she is bored and communicates with her friends on one of the social networks. Or the sales manager John, a great guy, though most of his deals fall through, although before that he managed to be the leader of the department. Perhaps in the life of Peter came a dark streak. But who knows, what if he has already opened his own business, living off the orders of the company employer? The personnel monitoring system has become a necessity for modern business. It helps protect resources and investments, protects personnel from “pests” from the outside and from negligent colleagues on the shop floor.
Covered Topics
1. No one is working
Do you know how much time your employees spend on endless solitaire games, coffee breaks, and chatting on social media or in the smoking-room? To be perfectly frank, every employer guesses that not all employees work equally hard for the good of the company. And regular surveys show that there is even a special expense item for idleness.
Statistics compiled by Monitask claim that in “ideal” companies, productive employees devote about 70-80% of their time to tasks. But in the vast majority of organizations, staff spend 40% or more of their time on entertainment.
Don’t want to pay for wasted time when you could be investing “extra” money in bonuses and talent training you need to invest in employee hours tracker and personnel control system.
2. Virus pandemic
Does the picture look familiar: a system administrator, for the umpteenth time this month, running around the office trying to restore the remains of a system corroded by an insidious virus? Most anti-virus solutions are powerless against the person at the computer who really needs to visit a site with “funny pictures”, open a phishing e-mail or try to install a new hacker-cracked game.
The information security specialists we surveyed admitted that in 97% of cases the employee who senselessly and mercilessly clicked the links and launched the applications was the culprit of data loss.
Antivirus has long been unable to cope with the full range of threats, which have refocused on the most vulnerable part of any protection system – humans. Personnel action control programs make it possible to increase the reliability of the information network. Firstly, such complexes are able to identify “holes” in the security perimeter and anticipate risks. Secondly, they monitor users’ actions in real-time and in case of danger can prevent unwanted operation. And third, monitoring systems can train personnel by simulating threats, evaluating employees’ actions, and modifying their reactions.
3. Friend, Comrade, and Enemy
The boss is not only the leader and inspirer of the team. Very often the manager has to act as a babysitter: although the children have grown up, not the best habits, acquired in the school bench, make themselves felt. The team does not like the “white crows”, especially if the office has stuck to the rule “less work, more rest. And they are able to tear apart a worker who wants to perform their job duties well in a few weeks. Situations when talented employees leave the company, not being able to stand the bullying of colleagues, are everywhere.
Do you care about the atmosphere in your team? Monitoring staff behavior will help maintain a normal work atmosphere, identify “hard workers” and prevent all kinds of emergencies.
4. Kickbacks and thefts
Kickbacks, bribes, and theft are inevitable realities of modern business. It is no secret that many employees are more interested in kickbacks than in bonuses. After all, a bonus has to be earned, but a kickback is given right away.
Small and medium-sized enterprises are the most vulnerable to threats. And this is logical because in the vast majority of cases there is a shortage of personnel, there are no regulated processes, and the boss, as a jack of all trades, has to manage everywhere and everywhere, closing the lack of specialists. In such a situation, the staff is left to fend for themselves and begin to do what they want: steal goods from the warehouse, look for additional financial “interest” in the transactions or develop their business at the expense of the employer’s resources.
If you do not want to lose the lion’s share of profits because of risks and are worried about the reputation of the firm – take control of the situation by installing a system for employee productivity monitoring.
5. Dead internal processes
“What’s dead can’t die,” reads the motto from the cult series “Game of Thrones. The analysis of business processes in a number of organizations has demonstrated the truth of this phrase. Work regulations created at random, without an in-depth analysis of the situation, are not viable. They complicate the life of the staff, slow down processes and lead to the fact that deadlines for tasks are disrupted, the quality of work falls, and those responsible cannot be found.
Do you want to improve the quality and productivity of your work? A monitoring system is the only effective method of solving the problem. It will help you optimize internal processes and find optimal models of task performance, based on real data and figures, rather than unsubstantiated assumptions and guessing by coffee grounds.
