The European Court of Human Rights recently ruled that employers can legally monitor their workers’ private online chats. Monitoring your employees is a great way to measure their productivity. It also gives you insight into how your resources are being allocated and...

Any workplace wanting to mitigate the risk of insider theft needs a good Skype Manager application. Afterall, employee Skype usage and privacy hit the headlines in 2012 after a U.S. company obtained Skype messages between co-workers who were complaining about their...

Yes, employee monitoring is legal in the United States! While the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act prohibits unauthorized interception of electronic communications including e-mail, the law exempts service providers. Therefore, the courts have commonly...

Many companies have decided that employee monitoring software is the best way for them to keep track of their employees. But if you can’t understand the reports, what is the point? Employee monitoring software is often used to guard against intellectual property theft...

Employee monitoring is widely recognized as an important protection against hacking, cybercrime, and illegal or inappropriate use of corporate hardware and software by employees. For employers, the icing on the cake is that it’s even been linked to productivity gains....