Is employee monitoring effective?

[bluejolls]

What do you think whether employee monitoring is efffective? If yes, what tools do you use and what are their benefits?

 

[DelJo63]

Depends upon your goals. In secured locations with on-going "secret" work (eg: JPL, CIA), it's just flat required. With news of major bank's misbehavior and lack of ethics - - some 3rd party would seem beneficial. Otherwise, IMO, it's an exercise to ensure non-abuse of the company resources (aka the net) and not content monitoring per se.

 

[Addicted2PC]

I guess it depends on the company, too, as well as whether you are satisfied with your employees work results. If it is a smaller IT company, you most likely have a family like friendly atmosphere where the employees simply enjoy working and being part of an awesome team. In that case, I don't think it makes any sense. But to me it also raises certain privacy concerns. I mean is it ethical at all to watch someone without their knowledge or consent? Even if a worker seems to waste too much time on social media which begins to be detrimental to his or her job quality, wouldn't you warn them or inform them first?