Employee monitoring needs to be approached correctly. Too often, poorly constructed plans, bad communication and unreasonable expectations get in the way of a successful implementation.
The Great Resignation opens the door to higher levels of insider threats, with ex-employees accidentally bringing enterprise data with them into new roles or intentionally introducing malware into a former employer's system. Here's how organizations can protect themselves from insider risk.
Email monitoring, video surveillance and keylogger software are some of the methods employers use to track productivity in the remote work environment. However, a new study from VMware, "The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work," has found a higher employee turnover rate in businesses that monitor productivity remotely.
By focusing on the three V’s — volume, velocity and visibility — of Software as a Service (SaaS) security, organizations can streamline and improve their security team’s efficiency, reducing their workload and increasing protection for the company against any potential exposure or data breach.
Gartner’s 2021 Hybrid Work Employee Survey of more than 2,400 knowledge workers in January 2021 reveals that employers’ attempts to recreate visibility by investing in tracking systems has made employees nearly 2 times more likely to pretend to be working, exacerbating the “always on” phenomenon. Employers’ attempts to recreate serendipity by adding more meetings has led to virtual overload – employees who now spend more time in meetings are 1.24 times more likely to feel emotionally drained from their work.
Retail theft may be a cost of doing business, but intelligent surveillance strategies can help mitigate risks, improve insurance premiums and monitor employees.
