10 Reasons Why You Should Monitor Your Employees E-mail & Internet Use at Work
1. You don’t want them sending confidential files or other confidential information to people via e-mail that aren’t suppose to know the information. You need to be concerned about them talking about work related information that isn’t suppose to leave the office.
2. You don’t want them looking at any inappropriate pictures while at work. You don’t want your company to get into trouble for employee’s sneaking around to look at pornographic images or anything else sexual.
3. You don’t want them to cheat the time clock. You don’t want them to waste your companies money by paying the employee if she or he is just surfing around on the Internet that isn’t work related.
4. You don’t want them being distracted by talking to buddies through instant messages while working. Employee’s would be able to accomplish more work if they didn’t chat with buddies while working. It will save you even more money if you don’t let them talk to buddies through Instant messages while working.
5. You don’t want them to get any viruses on the computer from surfing the Internet. You want to protect your computers. A virus could end up costing your company even more money to get rid of the virus. Employers have the right to limit what websites a employee can access on the Internet. Employers have a right to see everything that an employee does on the Internet since they are using the company computers to access the Internet.
6. You want to make sure that the employee’s aren’t talking about inappropriate things on the Internet to people through instant messages. You don’t want that type of thing going on through the Internet during working hours. It is a bad idea to let that happen since it will just cause problems sooner or later.
7. You don’t want a hacker to get any information such as employee’s social security numbers. You want to make sure that all confidential information is staying that way without being exposed to hackers.
8. Make sure that employees aren’t downloading a ton of illegal music off the Internet. It is illegal to download music unless you pay for it each time you download it.
9. Make sure that the employees aren’t downloading illegal DVD movies. The law doesn’t let a person legally download DVD movies off the Internet.
10. Make sure that your employees aren’t stalking anyone on the Internet. You don’t want to get in trouble with the legal system by allowing an employee to stalk a person on the Internet.
