14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of weeks ago, we learned that Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer banned employees from working at home. Business Insider reported that the decision came after she pulled the VPN logs and found out that employees were slacking off.
In a post published on the company’s blog (accompanied by a video), Nick Cavalancia, VP of monitoring solutions provider SpectorSoft, makes some interesting recommendations on how such situations can be avoided.
“With User Activity Monitoring (UAM), companies like Yahoo can have detailed visibility into employee activity - and at a far more granular level than just 'did they connect to the VPN',” Cavalancia explained.
“UAM gives companies access into every employee activity - every keystroke, chat, email, web page, application - everything, along with screen snapshots to create an associated visual record of the employee's work.”
The VP argues that Yahoo! might lose some talented employees because of Mayer’s latest decision, and that’s only because the company lacked visibility.
Of course, many might be concerned about the privacy implications of extensive monitoring.
“Employers are also concerned about monitoring due to privacy issues, which is why they frequently shy away from it. Companies needn’t worry about this anymore though, as employees recognize and accept that they are subject to monitoring,” Cavalancia told Softpedia a few months ago.
“In fact, a recent survey we conducted revealed that a majority of employees do not object to being monitored, and that they welcome it.”
In a separate interview we’ve had with him, the VP has explained that the key to addressing all privacy concerns is the implementation of an Acceptable Use Policy which informs employees that they are being monitored, along with all aspects of this process.
Here is an interesting video released by SpectorSoft on this topic:
