Work place computer monitoring

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Workplace Computer Monitoring

Introduction

Workplace monitoring means to monitor the activities of employees during the work time when they are supposed to be working for their employers An employee can be monitored for different activities using different techniques . One of the areas where an employee can be monitored in today 's working environment is to monitor the computer of the employee Computers at workplace are provided to the employees by their employer for official work and hence they are expected

to be using it for the same . Unless they comply with it they are surely using it for some unofficial purposes and also wasting the time during the working hours However there is another issue related to it which is to be taken into account and that is of privacy . Employees will definitely like to have their privacy at work which is their right . They would certainly not like their every move to be monitored which would make them feel uneasy at work . Logically both things need to be done . We have to see to it that no unauthorized use of the computers is taking place and at the same time privacy of the employees is also to be protected . Ideally there should be well defined laws for it clearly defining to what extent an employer can go in monitoring his employee and what the judicial use of a computer at workplace is

There are a number of ways by which computers...