Employee monitoring software

Short description: Software to monitor and supervise employee computers from a central location

Employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location.[1] It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy centralized log viewing via one central networked PC. Sometimes, companies opt to monitor their employees using remote desktop software instead.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Purpose
* 2 Features
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Purpose

Employee monitoring software is used to supervise employees' performance, prevent illegal activities, avoid confidential info leakage, and catch insider threats. Nowadays employee monitoring software is widely used in technology companies.[3]

## Features

An employee monitoring program can monitor almost everything on a computer, such as keystrokes and passwords inputted, websites visited, chats in Facebook Messenger, Skype and other social chats. A piece of monitoring software can also capture screenshots of mobile activities. E-mail monitoring includes employers having access to records of employee’s e-mails that are sent through the company’s servers.[4] Companies may use keyword searches to natural language processing to analyze e-mails.[4] The administrator can view the logs through a cloud panel, or receive the logs by email.[5]

## See also

* Computer surveillance
* Computer surveillance in the workplace
* Job satisfaction
* Malware
* Spyware
* Trojan horse
* User activity monitoring

## References

1. ↑ "What Is Employee Monitoring Software? (with pictures)". wiseGEEK. http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-employee-monitoring-software.htm.
2. ↑ "What is employee monitoring?". http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/employee-monitoring.
3. ↑ Ciocchetti, Corey A. (2011). "The Eavesdropping Employer: A Twenty-First Century Framework for Employee Monitoring" (in en). American Business Law Journal 48 (2): 285–369. doi:10.1111/j.1744-1714.2011.01116.x. ISSN 1744-1714. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1744-1714.2011.01116.x.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Spitzmüller, Christiane; Stanton, Jeffrey M. (June 2006). "Examining employee compliance with organizational surveillance and monitoring". Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology 79 (2): 245–272. doi:10.1348/096317905x52607. ISSN 0963-1798. http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/096317905x52607.
5. ↑ "Employee Monitoring Software features that matter". 10 February 2018. http://www.os-monitor.com/.

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