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BrowseReporter is a powerful employee internet usage monitoring software to monitor internet activity in the workplace. Our employee monitoring software gives you detailed evidence of web activity in your company, making it the perfect complement to existing internet use policies.
BrowseReporter’s detailed employee internet usage reports provide managers with the activity data they need to understand how in-house and remote teams are spending their time at work.
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An employee computer use policy helps ensure that your team members are aware of their responsibilities, but it’s not enough.
To make your policies truly effective you need visibility into which employees are visiting high-risk, inappropriate, or unproductive websites.
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Are bandwidth upgrades necessary, or is an employee’s misuse of the internet what’s causing bottlenecks?
With CurrentWare’s bandwidth monitoring features you can identify bandwidth hogs in your network, then block them to reduce unnecessary strain on your network’s bandwidth.
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While occasional web surfing might be okay so long as employees are getting their work done, workplace internet abuse can be a serious detriment to employee productivity.
The productivity insights provided by employee computer monitoring software allows you to identify inefficiencies so you can optimize work processes.
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Detect Software Piracy
Ensure only legitimately licensed software is being used on company computers.
Stop Workplace Harassment
Collect evidence of employees accessing pornographic, hateful, or crude websites at work.
Identify poor performers, improve visibility into employee productivity, and provide high-performers an opportunity to demonstrate their efforts.
Using BrowseReporter’s productivity by location reports you can analyze employee productivity trends to see where they thrive and verify attendance.
36% of desktop software & 29% of SaaS spend is underutilized or wasted!
Track SaaS and desktop software usage to uncover insights into what applications can be decommissioned, consolidated, or reduced
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Improve business intelligence with advanced insights into web browsing, app usage, bandwidth consumption, productivity, and more!
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With CurrentWare’s cybersecurity, web filtering, data loss prevention, and user activity monitoring solutions you’re in complete control of how your data is stored, secured, and retained. Your employees’ data cannot be accessed by CurrentWare.
Install the management software on a standard computer, then deploy the client software to your users’ computers
Connect your remote employees’ computers to the management software with simple port forwarding rules
Enjoy the scalability and availability of the cloud alongside the security, control, and flexibility of our on-premises solution
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With the full capabilities of the CurrentWare Suite you can go beyond monitoring internet activity with advanced visibility and control over internet, application, and removable media usage. Get granular insights into file uploads/downloads, file transfers to removable media, logon/logoff times, and more!
CurrentWare’s detailed employee productivity reports provide managers with the productivity metrics they need to better understand how employees spend their time at work.
Today’s Insights displays the real-time productivity and availability status of individuals and teams via an at-a-glance dashboard.
Easily view the most recent productivity metrics to understand who is actively working and what application/website they last used.
CurrentWare’s user activity monitoring and data loss prevention features give you the activity logs you need to protect against a data breach to insider threats.
Our employee monitoring software lets you capture screenshots of your employees’ screens to see exactly what they are doing on their computers.
Underutilized software costs businesses a staggering $34 billion per year! With genuine insights into employee application usage you can make informed software asset management decisions.
Improve data security with increased visibility into high-risk data transfers and USB activity.
Combine idle time tracking with logon history reports to get a full picture of your employee’s activity levels.
BrowseReporter’s Location Insights dashboard helps leaders make data-driven decisions about remote, in-office, and hybrid work.
Promote flexibility without sacrificing accountability with insights into how location flexibility affects employee performance and engagement.
Being able to identify negative browsing trends and put a stop to them within a couple of hours has meant that our employees are focused on the job almost all of the time. We have become an extremely efficient workforce.
The world of employee monitoring is a bit of a double-edged sword. As an employer you want to use software to monitor internet activity to gain critical insights and prevent time theft by ensuring employees work as expected, but your high-performing employees might feel like they aren’t trusted to handle their task management independently.
The key to a successful employee monitoring strategy is to foster employee buy-in. Your employees need to know that their privacy is respected, that they are trusted, and that productivity tracking software isn’t the sole method for evaluating employee performance.
Be Transparent About Employee Activity Monitoring
Employees that are not aware that they are being monitored, why they are being monitored, and how they are being monitored are less likely to find the use of employee computer monitoring software acceptable.
CurrentWare’s employee and computer monitoring software solutions can be deployed with an optional stealth mode or configured to periodically notify employees that they are being monitored.
Ensure Confidentiality & Privacy for the Employees Involved
While complete confidentiality cannot be guaranteed for all employees involved, the workplace investigation process must be conducted with as much confidentiality as possible for the parties involved.
Any monitoring or data collection should be conducted in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, as well as in accordance with the employer’s policies and procedures.
Additionally, it is essential to maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information and respect the privacy rights of employees during the investigation.
When it comes to workplace privacy, both the employee and the employer have rights that vary based on the jurisdiction of the company, as well as any relevant collective bargaining agreements.
Before monitoring employee computer activity for workplace investigations, be certain to consult with legal counsel to understand what employment laws apply to your organization and what steps you must take to monitor employees lawfully.
At a minimum your legal team will recommend a Workplace Monitoring Policy that outlines what data is collected and how it will be used.
How to Increase Buy-in for Employee Monitoring
Protect Employee Monitoring Data From Misuse
Employee monitoring data can be sensitive. Organizations need to ensure that administrative and technical security measures are in place to prevent data from being misused or leaked to unauthorized parties.
Only Monitor What is Needed
Employee monitoring is unique for every organization, and yours is no exception.
When you monitor your employees the best practice is to only monitor what is needed to meet your organization’s goals.
Rather than monitoring every single action your employees take without a clear reason to do so, you should map your clearly defined goals to the data points you need to collect in order to meet them.
This ensures that the monitoring methods used are as minimally invasive as is needed to meet your goals. You’ll also improve buy-in by clearly demonstrating the intended purpose of the monitoring.
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When implementing an employee monitoring solution, it is best practice to get explicit and informed consent from your employees that they are going to be monitored.
Even if there are no laws that specifically require that you disclose to employees that they are being monitored, it is the best practice to do so anyway.
What constitutes informed consent and lawful data collection varies by jurisdiction. As always, consult with legal counsel prior to monitoring employees to ensure you are compliant with data privacy and security requirements.
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Follow these best practices to increase buy-in for employee monitoring. Learn how to create a monitoring strategy that is transparent, fair, and respectful of employee privacy.
Automatically send reports to designated inboxes based on events or schedules
Limit activity tracking to specific days and schedules such as employee work hours
Optional privacy-enhancing features improve transparency and minimize data collection
The software can run silently in the background or be configured to alert users
Save time with a central admin console; optionally integrate Active Directory OUs or security groups
Protect your CurrentWare console with 2FA, passwords, privilege management, and more
Optimise your organisation’s software spending with insights about associated costs and usage.
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Why is computer monitoring software so popular? This video shows the key reasons why employers use computer monitoring software to track activity on employee computers.
Deciding on what the best employee monitoring software is for an organization can be a daunting process as individual requirements will change depending on the organization’s current infrastructure, the types of monitoring they would like to conduct, their data privacy and security compliance requirements, as well as several other factors.
This employee monitoring software buyer’s guide covers the essential considerations your organization must evaluate when determining the best employee monitoring software for its needs.
This kit provides your organization with the tools it needs to implement a successful employee monitoring strategy.
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Frequently asked
No, CurrentWare cannot access your employee’s computer activity tracking data. CurrentWare’s software does not send your user’s computer usage data to CurrentWare. They are installed and managed by your organization.
All of the data collected by CurrentWare’s employee tracking software is stored on a database that is installed in your organization’s data center or cloud service provider.
With CurrentWare’s on-premises & self-managed cloud deployment options, you’re in complete control of your data.
For more information please refer to our Terms of Service.
Employee monitoring software is a powerful monitoring tool that is used to see what users are doing on a remote computer.
This data provides valuable information for improving the performance and security of monitored devices.
By tracking the online behavior of employees you can ensure that their internet access is being used appropriately.
The best employee monitoring software records a variety of computer activities, including:
Employee monitoring tools can also send email notifications to alert a manager when undesirable or suspicious activities happen on monitored computers.
These activity reports serve as valuable evidence of unproductive or high-risk computer activity.
Employee monitoring software typically works by installing a monitoring agent on the employee’s computer. The software then captures and logs data related to the employee’s computer and internet activities. From there the monitoring software agent sends the activity data to a central server where it is stored and made available to the administrator of the software.
There are numerous productivity, security, and cost-optimization benefits of using employee monitoring software, such as:
According to a 2017 Spiceworks survey of IT professionals, the most common reasons that their employers monitor employees is to protect against malware and phishing scams, to prevent unacceptable user behavior, to prevent users from visiting inappropriate websites, for liability management/compliance purposes, and to protect sensitive information.
Learn More: The Benefits of Employee Productivity Tracking Software
When determining how employee monitoring software will be used with the teams in your organization it is important to understand the potential privacy implications for your employees and what factors influence your right to monitor employee activity.
Depending on your jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of your employees you may have legal obligations to fulfill before monitoring employees in the workplace. The best practice is to consult with a legal professional first.
Most workplace privacy and employee monitoring laws require you to be transparent about data collection. This includes informing employees about what is being monitored, how their data will be protected, and how it will be used.
Typically this disclosure is provided in an employee manual, workplace monitoring policy, or acceptable use policy.
The best computer monitoring software helps you meet your privacy requirements with privacy-enhancing features such as alerting your users that their computer activity is being monitored.
Employee computer monitoring software is used by a wide variety of industries. It is most commonly found in industries that are required to monitor employee activity for data security compliance purposes.
Examples of industries that use employee monitoring software include financial services, manufacturing, government, and healthcare.
Implementing an employee monitoring solution is not without its risks. Before monitoring your employees with employee monitoring software you must first evaluate the pros and cons of employee monitoring to see if it’s the right choice for your company.
Some common challenges of monitoring employees include:
Learn More: The Negative Effects of Employee Monitoring (& What You Can Do)
While at first glance it may appear that the advertised list price of employee monitoring software is the best price you will get, the majority of vendors will negotiate for more advantageous pricing based on a variety of factors.
How to Get the Best Price for Employee Monitoring Software
While being transparent about employee monitoring is the recommended best practice, giving notice to employees is not always required.
The majority of jurisdictions require each worker to be made aware of their employer’s intent to monitor. Some jurisdictions with greater rules and laws will further dictate that employees must be made explicitly aware of what data is captured, how it will be used (such as productivity management), and who will have access to it.
The best employee monitoring software will allow your organization to be in control of how visible the data loss prevention software is.
CurrentWare’s employee monitoring software solutions operate in stealth mode by default.
In stealth mode, the CurrentWare software client is not visible in the system tray or control panel of the user’s computer. Your users will not be able to uninstall the program or stop it without administrator privileges.
If you would like your users to be aware that they are being monitored, you can choose to show the CurrentWare software client in their system tray by enabling it in the client software settings.
CurrentWare provides a variety of privacy-enhancing features such as
Learn More: CurrentWare’s privacy features
It depends. If an employer allows employees to use personal devices for work purposes the employer may have legitimate business reasons to require the use of employee tracking software such as:
That said, from a legal perspective employers are seldom justified in monitoring the computer activity of employee-owned devices.
Furthermore, under the vast majority of circumstances, an employer will not be justified in secretly monitoring an employee’s personal computer. They will be required to notify them through a workplace monitoring policy, acceptable use policy, or similar company policy.
From both a security and privacy perspective, employers with a BYOD program should have their employees connect to a virtual machine that allows them to keep their computer activity, company software, and files separate from their personal activity.
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