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Story: Monitoring software: A productivity booster?
Posted by: Tony Gore (Wednesday 28 April 2004, 5:00 PM)
Why not provide an alternative before monitoring?
Install some machines in an "Internet Cafe" type of environment (OK for all but the smallest companies) and provide a decent bandwidth and separate firewall.
Employees can then be encouraged to use this for their personal use during working hours, and it keeps some of the more risky traffic away from the company network.
This is a much more positive approach, and can be cheaper than a lot of monitoring. It also encourages people to at least get up from their desks once in a while.
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