{"id":26,"date":"2009-09-14T13:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wavecrestcomputing.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2011-06-21T09:20:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:20:49","slug":"more-businesses-monitoring-employees-internet-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wavecrest.net\/index.php\/more-businesses-monitoring-employees-internet-use\/","title":{"rendered":"More Businesses Monitoring Employees&#8217; Internet Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More businesses are monitoring their employees&#8217; use of the Internet due to a constantly evolving Internet and increased security and productivity concerns.\u00a0 A recent article, &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/tampabay.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/stories\/2009\/09\/14\/focus1.html?b=1252900800^2081001&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\">Big Employer May Be Watching<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; from the Tampa Bay Business Journal discusses these concerns in more detail and provides advice from various IT professionals in the field of Employee Internet Management.\u00a0 Below is a snippet of the article with advice from Wavecrest Computing&#8217;s VP of Business Development, Dennis McCabe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The reasons why companies monitor employees has changed over time, said Dennis McCabe, VP of business development at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wavecrest.net\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Wavecrest Computing Inc.<\/strong><\/a>, a developer of management software based in Melbourne.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>After the burst of the dot-com bubble companies grew increasingly concerned with productivity. The concern later shifted to security issues posed by unwanted e-mail or \u201cspam.\u201d Productivity is once again a concern with the economic downturn, as well as security within a company, he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis is not a firewall where you might have unknown hackers that might attack you. These are people working in your building, colleagues,\u201d McCabe said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Communication between management and staff is essential.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cYou need informed management about how employees are using it and based on companies\u2019 philosophy,\u201d McCabe said. \u201cThey need to formulate a policy based on that.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More businesses are monitoring their employees&#8217; use of the Internet due to a constantly evolving Internet and increased security and productivity concerns.\u00a0 A recent article, &#8220;Big Employer May Be Watching,&#8221; from the Tampa Bay Business Journal discusses these concerns in more detail and provides advice from various IT professionals in the field of Employee Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,18],"tags":[102,101,6,100,103],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wave-news","category-wavecrest-computing","tag-employee-internet-management","tag-employee-productivity","tag-internet-monitoring","tag-internet-security","tag-internet-surveillance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>More Businesses Monitoring Employees&#039; 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