3 Reasons Employers should Monitor Employees Using Digital Devices

Digital devices have become almost an essential part of everyday office works and it is quite common to find most employees tapping the keys of their company-provided cell phones or smart phones for their work. When most of the work is restricted to calling and receiving calls, companies provide their staff with feature phones but where more digitally complex work like regularly checking the mails and keeping in touch with clients, customers or dealers through instant messengers are involved, staff is often found to be using smart phones or other higher digital devices.

But as facilities often come with misuse attached to them, there are employees who don’t use their digital devices the right way and misuse them instead. However, by monitoring their devices regularly, bosses and managers can ensure the proper use of the company-provided technology.

Below are the major reasons that make proper employee monitoring essential for lessening the misuse and ensuring the quality work.

Wasting Time Surfing the Web

Whether it is a smart phone or Internet accessible feature phone or a tablet that you’ve provided your employees with, they get access to limitless Internet for which you or your company is to pay the bill.  If your employees are sincere workers who hardly spend any time into useless things or understand the value of the money that the company spends on them, there wouldn’t be any unnecessary Internet usage that you’ll find them to be involved in. However, things are never the same with every one, and you may have some employees who simply waste their time and your resources over surfing the web uselessly.

Lying About Their Locations

This comes into the scene when your employees have to move out of the office for certain tasks or their regular work involves going on errands. Say, you have a huge marketing staff that works away from the office or you’re the manager of an insurance company where the employees have to meet the prospective clients on a regular basis, in all such cases, you may or may not know exactly where your employees go until you have a real evidence. Some of them may even be lying about their locations to you. But when you use employee monitoring app on your staff’s digital devices, you get to know the exact location of your staff away from the office.

Breaking Social Networking Policies

Perhaps your company follows a strict social networking policy such as no social networking during the work hours or it slightly different like not to post hate posts or remarks that can blemish the image of the company or so on. You’ll surely not want your employees to break the rules or disregard the policies, will you? But some employees just don’t care; they are so much in love with the social sites that they simply give up every rule or policy of the company. By monitoring their devices you’ll know about their every Internet activity.

Making Surplus Personal Calls

It is fine to make one or two urgent calls at home to one’s spouse or kid or some friend or relative once in a while but can it be a justified action if your employees keep making personal calls through the phone that you’ve provided to them? Obviously not, and moreover, it will not just upset your cellular budget but will even ruin the overall discipline of the office. But with employee monitoring app on your staff’s cell phones, you get all the details related to the calls they make as well as the other activities that they take part in and interestingly, you can even block some of the real bogus features on the phone like the download option (if it is not required for any official purpose) or certain sites which are disallowed as per your policies and so on.

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