Do You Know What Your Employees Are Doing on Your Time?

I run a small business, and productivity is crucial for my profit margin. The majority of my employees respect the workplace and their colleagues, but as in any business, there are some who don't. A couple of my workers seemed to always be falling behind, saying jobs took a lot longer than I thought they should, based on how long it had taken their predecessors.
I suspected they were cruising the Internet or taking care of personal business when they should have been concentrating on the work for which they were being paid. Now, I understand the need for down time and the occasional distraction. Taking a break is vital for optimal performance. Still, enough was enough. I warned my employees about what was expected of them while they were on the job. But little changed, and I still had my suspicions.
But no real proof.
The obvious solution cost less than $50.
I decided to test two different key tracking softwares to monitor the computers in my office:
Keylogger Computer Spying Software and IamBigBrother Software. Both were successful in identifying the employees who were wasting time. But what I discovered shocked me. One of my employees spent at least half his time looking for pornography. Another was cheating on her husband and using her work computer to conduct the affair. In one way or another, the software helped me determine how my workers were spending their time and how to change my policies and procedures to tighten up the workplace.
While Keylogger is aimed more for the business market and IamBigBrother is geared for parents who want to track the activities of their children, both have similarities. Both operate undetected on Windows operating systems, even in the Task Manager window. Both track all the Web sites visited and record every key stroke made on the computer, which make it easy to monitor chat and instant messages. They capture account names and passwords at sites like Myspace, Facebook and Gmail. Both also can take snap shots of the computer screen.
After my initial experiment, I decided to use Keylogger at my business and IamBigBrother at home on my children's computers. I let my employees know they could be monitored at any time, and it came as no surprise that their productivity improved drastically. I did not share the same information with my children. But my scrutiny of their activities has provided even greater dividends. Suffice it to say you would probably be surprised what your children will say if they don't know they are being watched.