EMPLOYEE MONITORING SOFTWARE

Employee monitoring software is the one in which the program within the software allows the employers to inspect action and activity of the employees with the help of the company's computer. This is done to develop insight into the habits of the employees, the way they consume time and identifying their productivity levels. The monitoring software can be placed under two categories out of which in the primary category that software is included that promotes informational and system security. In the second category are those which assist the superior in the company to track employee’s working habits and extent of productivity for the sake of better and easier employee management.


These are the following key employee monitoring software that is most frequently used by the superiors of the company.


SentryPC: This is cloud-based filtering and monitoring solution that help on to record, schedule or filter computer activities of the employees. The positive aspect related to the use of this software is that it allows effective monitoring of the employees. This is because it is seen that it offers a robust surveillance and monitoring tool to the employers or supervisor to execute their tasks. The software is seen to allow the supervisor with real-monitoring experiences so that they are able to catch screenshots, inactivity, and attendance tracking as well as file printing, email and others. It also allows filtering and blocking potentially harmful applications, websites, games, and others that employees are using. It can track whether or not employees are idle or working on their computers. However, there are limitations related to the software such as it has no trial available for Mac users. Thus, it is quite impossible to examine their detail impact and efficiency to monitor employees before actual installation. Moreover, it does not offer a free sample for testing and thus had to be bought directly by just reading its specifications given.

Toggl: The Toggl is straightforward and intuitive software to be used for keeping a track on the performance of the employees regarding their time management, the progress of tasks and others. This is an effective cloud-based solution which is available with the help of email 24/7 (premium plan) or during working hours. This program is though seen to help in payroll accounting by the companies it is not effective enough as a powerful monitoring tool because it is not fully automated. This is because in this software the employees require to manually put in the time of work by clicking a start button while initiating the tasks and press the end button while they leave work. This is problematic because often people are seen to forget in keeping track of their working time while they are busy executing the jobs. Further, in this software, no website blocking or screenshots are allowed to be taken. The attendance of the workers with the help of this software is tracked manually which may create errors. The key issues with the software are that it does not monitor any of the applications, websites, files or others being used in the specific amount of time. The employees are made to manually put comments regarding their work that seems to be time-consuming. However, it is one of the cheapest monitoring software available in the market for monitoring employees.

Yaware Time Tracker: This application is a form of automated time tracker which allows the supervisor to monitor software and internet usage, spent time on them by the employees, evaluation of their productivity as well as performance. This is a cloud-based solution which is going to offer a customer support team that is going to be happy to assist the supervisor and others through emails during the course of their working hours. The advantage of the application is that it offers powerful monitoring software that tracks each and every action automatically as well as lets the supervisor observes employee attendance, time-consumption to execute work and real-time actions. Moreover, it offers screenshots to be taken through the help of a webcam that is quite intrusive and in this case the supervisors require getting familiar with the laws of their country so that legal issues can be avoided. However, it though has a strong emphasis on the monitoring system but it lacks efficiency to block certain applications and websites. The tracker has still not implemented the feature to track tasks and projects and neither the expenses and accounts payroll. However, the tracker allows marking employee productivity as neutral, productive and unproductive that can be later used for productivity analytics or reports. Further, it allows the supervisor to have the choice of whether to run the program in stealth mode or not while monitoring the employees. The price of the software is $8 per users each month which is quite affordable for many businesses who are ready to create investment in improving employees performance through monitoring within their companies.

Veriato 360: The Veriato 360 is a form of monitoring software that has a strong orientation towards surveillance and prevention of security. The application is seen to offer the supervisors the ability to extensively monitor the employee’s activity in a remote way either from a laptop on road or from the home computer. Since the software is cloud-based thus it is not difficult to be installed. Apart from tracking time and employees activities the Veriato 360 also have the efficiency to capture keystrokes and screenshots. Further, it allows to store whatever happened on the computer screen is video format to be viewed later. The application generates different forms of reports related to the mischievous action of consumption of time by the employees. This application allows filtering and blocking websites and can even block programs as well as files to restrict entry.  It also allows the choice to the supervisor to either run it transparently or in stealth mode to monitor the employees. The one hindrance with the pricing of the software is that there is no quoted price specified publicly. The prices are pointed out after the data are submitted and email is done to gather information. It is offered on a free trial version for 15 days.

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  1. It's an excellent article, and I've saved it for future use. Time Tracking Software and Employee Monitoring Software in India are more compatible for businesses nowerdays. Let's remain in touch as soon as possible.

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