4 Most Valid Reasons for Monitoring Employees at Work

Wondering if you really need to monitor your employees or not? Well, if you already have something like CCTVs surrounding your work place, you don’t really need to ask yourself anything anymore because your CCTVs are already on their job of monitoring employees at work! But the question arises if or not you should be tracking the digital devices that your staff uses when they are working in the office.

Below, you have some of the reasons that will clarify all the doubts in your head and the things that are stopping you from moving ahead on your spying business that otherwise appears a perfectly interesting thing to do!

Digital devices are taking over the water cooler chit chat

Years back, employees knew that apart from their tea time break or lunch and snacking breaks they have only one way to do something silly that hasn’t anything to do with their work but surely has a lot to do with their entertainment! So, every time they’d go to the water cooler for water or the coffee machine for some mind boosting caffeine, they had some time to refresh themselves and this particular time used to be the time to get into the office gossips and other rumors for a while. And some employees were such great gossipers that they would spend about 15 to 20 minutes in their water cooler chit chat! 

And now, wow, what a workaholic staff most companies have, who just doesn’t leave the seats, not even for the dose of caffeine! Well, don’t be that very excited or happy because this didn’t really result from the employees turning into workaholic but because their digital devices have replaced the entire concept of water cooler chit chat! Every time there’s a new gossip in the company, employees share it on the WhatsApp or on some secret Facebook group where no boss is allowed!

Employees are sometimes the shoppers on their seats

Some employees are so happily working for the entire day that they even forget to get up for going to the washroom or have a sandwich or two for the lunch! You’ll have to say thanks to the hundreds of online shopping sites easily accessible from your office PCs and other devices like cell phones and tablets, as your employees are not happy because of the piles and piles of work on their computer systems but because they are shopping things right inside the office! 

 

Some employees are real tricksters who can pass all your company secrets

This is a bit of villainy added to the whole scene! What, you’re expecting a story from some action packed Hollywood flick? Wait a second and you’ll be sighing with dread! Some employees turn out to be real villains. Yes, they run their own businesses right from your work space. So, you run an ad agency and you just got a project from a well renowned company, and gosh the contract has gone out of your hands just in a minute! You can’t imagine why did this really happen, right? Guess what? After a few weeks you find your idea, your concept, your imagination turned into a real advertisement playing on various channels! How did it really happen? Simple, you shared the idea with your employees and one of them (the villain in your life) leaked it to your competitors and got paid for the job and before you could do anything the idea was sold cheaper by your arch enemy to your dream client!

Some of them are often the teens playing games, watching movie, or chatting with friends

Now being an adult doesn’t really mean that you’ll be behaving like an adult all the time! Sometimes doing silly things, playing video games or watching foolish videos attract an adult just the way they do to the teenagers. So your employees who are simply stuck to their desks don’t really have to work hard whole day to cover their 9 to 5 time slot! They can do it by simply playing games or watching movies or chatting with friends through chat messenger apps on the phone or on the social networking sites. Next time when you find your employees to be working really hard and yet their pending tasks not getting over make sure to check if they are really working or are simply having fun like a teenager sitting at the last bench of the Math class!

Since you have very valid reasons for monitoring employees’ digital devices and make out if they are really working, go ahead and install some powerful monitoring software on the devices and check what exactly in happening out there. You’ll be able to stay aware of every single thing that your employees actually do with complete details in a most discreet manner that nobody will ever know that you’re keeping an eye on their work!