Five Ways Your Boss Spies On You At Work
Jun 21st, 2008 by shop-universal-best-buy
Five Ways Your Boss Spies On You At Work
Here are just a few ways your employer can keep an eye on your online activities at work.
By reading your email. Some employers monitor your work email and even your personal email accounts when you use them from a work computer.
By tracing your keystrokes. Some companies can keep track of employees’ behavior by reproducing all of the keystrokes the employee has made on his work computer
By watching your browsing activity. Online browsers generally save your browsing history.
By using the firewall. Firewalls can be used to monitor web traffic, allow or disallow programs to access the Internet, stop Instant Messaging, and more.
By watching your online activity—even when you’re at home. It’s possible for your boss to set up Google Alerts, a program run by Google that will send an email alerting him whenever new results come up for certain keywords…say, your name and the company’s name.
Depending on where you live, your boss may not be required to notify you at all when he looks in on what you’re doing online. Make sure you know your company’s policy on personal computer use at work, and be sure you know what they consider “reasonable” use—some employers allow workers to visit news sites from time to time but not online shopping sites, or restrict the amount of time workers can spend on personal surfing. To be perfectly safe, save your personal computer use for your computer at home.
About the author
C Smith is sales director for on365.co.uk on365 are a UK based data center Management and cooling solutions specialist company. For more info on cooling solutions products and services visit http://www.on365.co.uk/Products/Cooling_Solutions.aspx?categoryID=3
Five Ways Your Boss Spies On You At Work / Author: C. Smith
