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Posted at 12:11 PM on 11/2/2009
Entrepreneur Editor
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Do you monitor your employees' email and internet usage?

Why or why not? Is it an infringement of your employees' privacy?

Katherine Cao
Sales General Manager
Tianjin TEDA Air Industry Co., Ltd
Posted 11/3/2009
IIt's time-consuming and personal rights intruding to monitor your employees' online activity. However, you can have access to the personality, working condition of your employee, but this monitoring activity is commonly being conducted secretly and privately. It's ideal for your employee to be self-motivated, or make them fet monitered.
I've seen the boss who's monitor the computer screen of his empoyee at intervals with abrupt appearance, and his employee are very hard-working apparently on the surface but deep in heart everyone is full of complaints and looking for job opportunity of another company.

Tommy Jaye
President, CEO,
The Micropreneur, LLC
Posted 11/4/2009
No! I pay close attention to their personal well-being, production results & client satisfaction.

Tommy Jaye
SmallBizHelpers

Elaine Bishop
CEO And Founder
Posted 11/8/2009
AUTONOMY is essential to employee satisfaction. Invading and monitoring email is quite unnecessary. The performance appraisal is the most effective measure of commitment and productivity.

Elaine, CEO-GBIntel

Patrick Etefia
Founder
spyultimatum.com
Posted 11/9/2009
There are many reasons why an employer would monitor the activities of its employees. Performance is usually low on the list whilst pilfering of stock orthe protection of sensitive information is high on the list. There are various arguments for and against monitoring employees but whatever your position in this matter, the practice is definitely on the increase. I guess i am biased on this subject seeing that I am a provider of various spying equipment used by employers but the results that have occurred as a consequence of their use have made it worthwhile.

Patrick Etefia
Founder
spyultimatum.com

abbas Sohrabi
sohrabibroker
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Posted 11/10/2009
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Naveen John
Content Associate
NEN
Posted 11/26/2009
I feel monitoring employees email, internet & Screen is unnecessary because it is like snatching the employees freedom in office. As long as the employee performs in the organisation its fine. If the employee needs to perform well then the employee must be given freedom in the Organization.

Raj K Singh
Founder & CEO
Rudra Softtech LLP
Posted 12/1/2009
It depends, in data sensitive organizations monitoring is required.

Plus some mild monitoring can put a check on corruption and can make employee's more attentive and focused.

Robb Rogers
COO
VigilanceGPS
Posted 12/16/2009
It really depends on the type of business and level of monitoring. If you have a manager that is going around sneaking up on people to see what they are doing on-line, the problem is not with the employee, it is with that manager.

As long as you have a strong software program that monitors key words searches, that should be enough with most businesses.

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