Monitoring employee's use of e-mail and interent can have its advantages. firstly if the employee is abusing their acess to the interent by spending time that they should be woking, browsing shopping ebsties etc, then the manager or whoever is in charge of the companies internet acess can see that they are not wroking and bring them up on it. Also if the employee is spending work time sending e-mails to friends of looking for potential new jobs then they can be viewed byt he manager and action can be taken. Filters can pick up on keywords too such as 'porn', 'jobs' 'CV' 'illegal' etc, if a site which has use of these 'key words' is found by the system the site will be blocked and an notification sent to the manager.
Negative impacts that this type of security can have is that it invades the employee's privacy, if a confidential e-mail is sent about family/friends or personal health and someone else reads it first, it isnt right. Also the filter can block sites that maybe have one of the keywords on it but has nothing of the content that is meant to be blocked on. This can cause big annoyance when the staff won't be able to access sites that may help them do their job.
Advantages this type of system has for employees is that it can protect them from unwanted e-mail spam and potentially harmful websites.
As said before the system can block sites that are not harmful or contain unwanted content, this can cause problems that can hinder the staff's work thus making they business less effective.
Use of this system may be vital to keep the users safe and keep the company running smoothly without its employees spending work time browsing the interent but the system can hinder work by blocking vital e-mails and websites.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment