Corporate Intranet

Employee monitoring is an invasion of privacy if it is not treated right. At the same time monitoring of workers not to invade the privacy of employees, if it is done properly. The question is, it is necessary to control and monitor computers in the workplace. According to many research and facts, it seems that it is important that employees can use monitoring and surveillance.

Even if we assume that most workers are honest and do not need to control, there are manythat the work is dishonest. After 2001 National Retail Security Survey (USA) in 45.9% of inventory shrinkage comes from employee theft, shoplifting, and a lot more than people in 2001, the estimate of 15.243 billion in inventory at work have formed their own employees.

There is a saying that the Internet is like any other community, and thus the same as what happens in the "real world happening" on the computer is online. Therefore, we could estimate that there are problems andDishonesty with many employees over the Internet and corporate network because of problems in real life. Computer Security Institute (CSI) in San Francisco working with the FBI has done research on computer security and illegal behavior of workers and found 90% of companies suffered from computer security breaches, and 45% of respondents indicated that the calculated costs the total cost was estimated at $ 455,848,000. Among the most expensive part of the losses was the financial fraud and relatedIntellectual property theft. 80% of companies in the research from financial loss suffered in relation to their employees.

Think people are often on the Internet crimes are comparable to the facts of sex crime and violence related to the sex and violent crimes to believe. Most people who are sexual offenders and gender-based crimes more afraid to look after victims of violence by strangers. The facts tell us in the most violent and sexual crime victims will knowPerpetrators. The same seems to corporate network security. Which seems to speak most, to the computer hackers and criminals who attack the system from outside. At the same time the facts 70-80 $ of all computer crimes are by employees against their employers. These are often as a kind of unlawful use of the company network and Internet connection abuse by downloading pornography, downloading of illegal material, and the e-mail system in an unlawful manner.

Wecan relate to other facts that show how much the Internet at work, the employee honesty and impairing productivity. It is estimated to be about 75% of the companies bandwidth used for private activities on the Internet. An average of 30 minutes per day and are many times lost more than that goes into the personal Internet use at work every day. It was estimated that $ 50 billion is lost each year in the U.S. only in terms of game play on the company network.

Sexual harassment cases are also very concernedin connection with this new technology. Unwanted material downloaded, printed, trough corporate e-mail and intranet. Some of these things that are too often the case of an action does not mean "that no harm:" It will be a joke, and sent pictures, too funny be. For many, they are really funny, but multi-million dollar action is never fun for any business. More than 15,000 cases of sexual harassment with Equal Employment Opportunity Commission each year inU.S.

Is it necessary to control the computer staff of enterprises and workers to monitor its use? These results, at least tells us that companies in high-risk, at a great loss indeed fraud, theft of intellectual properties, illegal download, sexual harassment cases and loss of productivity if they did not supervise any employees and control and block any behavior on the Internet at work. Companies need to educate about the risks and decide strategies and methodson activities such as e-mail, chat, play games and etc.