London, UK – Many employers shy away from using web monitoring and restrictions on internet use because they hurt morale and do little to enhance employee productivity. Yet web monitoring can be good for businesses and a significant employee productivity enhancement tool. Used diligently, web monitoring can help businesses to coach employees on how to improve their time management and merge their workload with acceptable levels of browsing during office hours.
“Wasting time through Internet activities is simple and it’s a huge hidden cost to business. Just answering a few personal e-mails, checking the sports scores, reading the news headlines and checking to see how your bid is holding up can easily waste an hour of time each day. If the company has an 8 person CAD department and each of them spends an hour day on the above activities, that’s a whole employee wasted,” GFI Software, a leading email and security software provider, points out in a white paper entitled 'Web Monitoring for Employee Productivity Enhancement', being released today.
Employees both want and don’t want to have their Internet use restricted. The key to success in gaining productivity and employee acceptance of the problem is the perception of fairness, clear goals and self enforcement.
“Web monitoring is good for business. The Internet as a productivity tool has wide acceptance but recent changes have brought new distractions costing business some of those productivity gains. The Internet can be controlled but needs to be done in a way that allows for employee buy-in, self monitoring and self enforcement to be successful. When used well it could be a significant employee productivity enhancement tool,” GFI concludes.
To download a copy of the FREE white paper, please visit http://www.gfi.com/whitepapers/web-monitoring.pdf (Registration not required).
About GFI
GFI is a leading software developer that provides a single source for network administrators to address their network security, content security and messaging needs. With award-winning technology, an aggressive pricing strategy and a strong focus on small-to-medium sized businesses, GFI is able to satisfy the need for business continuity and productivity encountered by organizations on a global scale. GFI has offices in the US, Malta, UK, Hong Kong and Australia which support more than 200,000 installations worldwide. GFI is a channel-focused company with over 10,000 partners worldwide. GFI is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner. More information about GFI can be found at http://www.gfi.com.
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