Employee monitoring corporate right and wrong
Many companies in order to strengthen or improve the management efficiency, especially on the employee's computer was monitored chat tools, including chat, and some are even installed in the employees' knowledge. A survey shows that Chinese companies are almost twice as employee computer monitoring, including online chats, such as QQ, skype, msn and other chat text, e-mail content monitoring.
Let's look at a case:
Employees: Kobayashi working in a trading company, after a week of work for companies that MSN, QQ chat private person staff to monitor (a computer company, before the entry LAN monitoring software has been installed on your computer), she felt my heart is very awkward, the matter will be posted to microblogging, attracted many users thread discussion. Many users thread said his company "QQ Weibo Taobao direct closure, and can not log in," some say, "the company's sales are carried out to locate the phone," and some Kobayashi as "MSN monitoring, mail monitoring, like a lot I do not know the username you entered, the password can not be monitored, "there are friends, said he was" behind a camera, monitor does not stay dead "... we all think it is abhorrent to the extreme surveillance, many employees feel that no or feel a sense of security is not to be trusted, anger and resignation.
Manager: the boss is a small business owner, said he is now getting higher and higher labor costs, but do not dry as ever before. Not know too much about computers, but the company each employee with a computer. Sometimes after inadvertently walked by employees, mostly hurriedly turn off the page, or QQ, etc., to see this more often, the boss can not let them think so. So they spend thousands of dollars to install a local area network monitoring software, so that he will be able to know roughly in front of their computer employees are doing. He said, I do not want to, but had to put on, say although installed, who often go to, ah, not primarily as a deterrent.
In addition to the boss like this, more companies install employee monitoring software to protect their own interests, to prevent the theft or leakage. After the installation of such software, employees can chat real-time monitoring, the Internet can also view employee records, operational records file, the computer screen recording, message content, so that managers really grasp all acts of employees, the company can advance a possible security breach aware of and prevent, we can also implement real responsibility to people in a number of important events after the problem.
It seems evaluate employee monitoring software is right or wrong really is not an easy task. Perhaps both sides should stand on each other's point of view to consider: Think about your manager is to recruit the staff recognized him, since recognition of good work would have to trust him, do not get any monitoring, so to have people in not comfortable; employees can stand the manager point of view, after all the company's computers, work time, the company is paid a salary, for some special positions, this staff have confidentiality obligations, companies know you at work What time do to prevent employees will give out confidential company information is also very normal. And we can remind ourselves to the more serious work on their own or in the company are good. But one thing is certain, the company for whatever motive, install monitoring software or to inform employees in advance, this is the most basic respect, the law also required.