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Wasting Time at Work: Improving Employee Effectiveness

How many hours do your employees waste every day? Chatting with friends, reading news, browsing the Web and entertaining themselves with ‘office killer’ games, employees in a typical office waste as much as 35% of their working hours, according to a Microsoft survey performed in 2005 [1]. Microsoft surveyed employees of large corporations, and discovered unclear objectives, lack of team communication and ineffective meetings to be the top time wasters. But is it also true for small and medium-size businesses?

Owners of small and medium-size businesses find themselves in a different seat. Running small businesses leaves no room for unclear objectives. Small teams eliminate miscommunications, and corporate meetings are better left to those monster corporations. Does this mean that small business employees are more effective than those employed by large corporations? Not necessarily.

Small business owners often find their employees wasting time chatting, playing casual computer games, reading news or browsing the Internet pointlessly. While browsing the Web and communicating with customers over instant messengers might be a legitimate part of employees' everyday activities, it is hard to distinguish between what's being done for work and what's for fun.

Fortunately, small business owners are not left without tools that help them reduce or prevent unauthorized employee activities.

Refog Employee Monitor makes it easy to intercept and record employee activities that lead to the most time wasted. The employee monitoring tool intercepts keystrokes, tracks all Web sites visited by employees, logs chats and conversations in common instant messengers, keeps track of applications they run and files they use, and takes periodic captures of their computer screens.

Refog Employee Monitor is easy to learn and to use, and does not require business owners to become security officers. The available intelligent filters make it simple to glance through employees' essential activities while skipping assigned tasks. The intelligent chat module recognizes common instant messengers such as AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and MSN Messenger, and produces chat logs in a legible, human-readable format. Instant alerts notify business owners if any of the pre-defined events occurs, such as if an employee types certain key phrases or runs certain applications.

With Refog Employee Monitor, it's up to the business owners whether or not to advertise the computer surveillance system to employees. The available invisible mode makes Refog Employee Monitor completely hidden from employees, while password-protection makes it impossible to circumvent, disable or uninstall. All in all, Refog Employee Monitor is an extremely cost-effective, result-oriented computer surveillance system that does not require any wiring or extra hardware.

A free trial version of Refog Employee Monitor is available at: http://www.refog.com/employee-monitoring.html

[1] Microsoft Corp. “Survey Finds Workers Average Only Three Productive Days per Week”

Summary: How many hours do your employees waste every day? Learn how to improve employee performance and reduce the time waste with employee monitoring software.

Product	Refog Keylogger	Refog Personal monitor	Refog Employee monitor
	Refog Keylogger	Refog Personal monitor	Refog Employee monitor
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Audience	Home	Home and SMB	SMB and middle businesses
Keystrokes logging	yes	yes	yes
URL monitoring	yes	yes	yes
Apps monitoring	yes	yes	yes
Screenshots capture	yes	yes	yes
Invisible mode	yes	yes	yes
IM & Facebook® chats interception	no	yes	yes
E-mail & FTP delivery	no	yes	yes
File tracking	no	yes	yes
Alarm keywords	no	yes	yes
Realtime network logs	no	no	yes