Using employee monitor to monitor employees has been an objectionable issue in the last two years. Generally speaking, employers should inform employees of the monitoring activities in the company, but some employers would rather keep silence. There is also a truth that nearly most of the surveillance program that are installed in employees' computers can be run in stealth mode which cannot be recognized in program list. As employees, what do you think of it?

1. Why Do Employers Monitor Employees?
Using employee monitor to monitor employees has been an objectionable issue in the last
two years. Generally speaking, employers should inform employees of the monitoring
activities in the company, but some employers would rather keep silence. There is also a
truth that nearly most of the surveillance program that are installed in employees'
computers can be run in stealth mode which cannot be recognized in program list. As
employees, what do you think of it?
Employers have been thinking on how to monitor employee and utilize employee monitor
to record employees' PC activities by applying surveillance technologies. According to a
study, 80 percent of employees can't dedicated in their work since they do private stuff
online in working hour such as viewing porn websites and SNS sites, gambling, watching
movies, talking with buddies via Gtalk, thus, the working efficiency of the whole
company could be remarkably lowered and the load of the network, meanwhile, will be
tremendously utilized, making tasks that ought to have been finished left incomplete
while private affairs that shouldn't have been completed left done, which, for the
employers, is a time-wasting process but with unsatisfying and low fertility. Employers'
monitoring action is logically rational for the most part if you view things in employers'
viewpoint because all the computers are the properties of the company. Employees use
the computers to increase income for the employers, and get paid monthly. Employers
have to confirm the wages are worthy of paying and the employees exactly do their job
during working hour. There may be also another peril that employees reveal company's
trade secrets purposely or unknowingly, employee monitor can be helpful when employer
has to take legal actions on dispute with employees.
For the employees, long time working every day is really frustrating, and very few could
entertain in a good way. Playing online games can be a selection if they had

2. accomplished assigned tasks, but please pay attention to the employee monitor, and
privacy shall be taken into account, when you sign up to your web banking account, the
password is tracked, a few employee monitors have key logger feature to attract people's
attention while some haven't because it would cause lawsuit on privacy in high
probability, key logger is a function that uses root kit techniques which wouldn't create
folder and the logging process cannot be seen in program list, namely, the employee
monitor is operating in backstage. A disciplined employee could be highly valued by
employers. Smart employees would finish the assigned tasks in the first place and once
free time is available, and they do not use company-owned computers to do personal
things, such as chatting with friends via Instant Messenger. Be aware of the employee
monitor.
Employee monitor is not the only salvation to the issue. On one hand, employers who
utilized employee monitor should in accordance with local laws. Please do remember,
employees' privacy can not be assaulted and let employees know they are being
monitored, on the other hand, employees should be disciplined and obey with company
policies. In conclusion, only by comprehending with each other well and making a better
working condition, can employers and employees maximize company profits and
increase working efficiency.