Comments on: 4 tools to deal with online slackers http://www.hrtechnews.com/4-tools-to-deal-with-online-slackers/ News and advice from the intersection of tech and HR Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:24:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: williamhttp://www.hrtechnews.com/4-tools-to-deal-with-online-slackers/comment-page-1/#comment-4674 william Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:07:30 +0000 http://www.hrtechnews.com/?p=667#comment-4674 With the cost of bandwidth and the importance the internet has taken for conducting business, you can't afford to have it taken up by employees playtime. Supervisors can deal with performance issues but need tools to back it up. Applications that filter all internet access not only block sites that should be blocked such as adult/sex, hate, racism, guns, etc., but it gives you the tools and the data to back up any suspicions you may have that an employee is wasting too much time surfing. These systems will also highlight sites that may be security risks or legal liability risks.If an employee can't separate play time from work time, do you really want them wasting your time and more importantly your resources? With the cost of bandwidth and the importance the internet has taken for conducting business, you can’t afford to have it taken up by employees playtime. Supervisors can deal with performance issues but need tools to back it up. Applications that filter all internet access not only block sites that should be blocked such as adult/sex, hate, racism, guns, etc., but it gives you the tools and the data to back up any suspicions you may have that an employee is wasting too much time surfing. These systems will also highlight sites that may be security risks or legal liability risks.

If an employee can’t separate play time from work time, do you really want them wasting your time and more importantly your resources?

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