Comments on: Wal-Mart Spying: Good, Bad, Or Just The Future? http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/wal-mart-spying-good-bad-or-just-the-future/2242/ Internet marketing News Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=5422 By: Timothy Dean http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/wal-mart-spying-good-bad-or-just-the-future/2242/#comment-467368 Timothy Dean Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:00:00 +0000 http://rinf.com/alt-news/surveillance-big-brother/wal-mart-spying-good-bad-or-just-the-future/2242/#comment-467368 <i>"Zweig is not against monitoring. He believes in today’s environment, where companies face a wide range of internal and external threats, some levels of monitoring are necessary. However, he believes the monitoring should be in relation to the risk, and that companies need to do more to inform employees exactly how they are being monitored and why. “If you give people a rational explanation for monitoring, they will at least see why the company is doing it,” he says. “But you should be open and inform them exactly how it’s being done and what controls are in place."</i> Very true indeed. There's definitely a reason why these monitoring systems are being installed but employees do need to know why and <a href="http://www.timedoctor.com/blog/2010/11/18/how-to-successfully-monitor-your-employees-internet-usage" rel="nofollow">how it's done</a> to avoid any further problems and controversies. When a staff knows that they've been monitored, it will automatically follow that they wouldn't do anything unlawful to jeopardize their work. Monitoring should not be done in excess too or else your employees will become very unhappy and unproductive in the process, give them adequate freedom to be able to do some personal surfing or phone calls, put your trust on your employees and on the system that you put in. “Zweig is not against monitoring. He believes in today’s environment, where companies face a wide range of internal and external threats, some levels of monitoring are necessary. However, he believes the monitoring should be in relation to the risk, and that companies need to do more to inform employees exactly how they are being monitored and why. “If you give people a rational explanation for monitoring, they will at least see why the company is doing it,” he says. “But you should be open and inform them exactly how it’s being done and what controls are in place.”

Very true indeed. There’s definitely a reason why these monitoring systems are being installed but employees do need to know why and how it’s done to avoid any further problems and controversies. When a staff knows that they’ve been monitored, it will automatically follow that they wouldn’t do anything unlawful to jeopardize their work. Monitoring should not be done in excess too or else your employees will become very unhappy and unproductive in the process, give them adequate freedom to be able to do some personal surfing or phone calls, put your trust on your employees and on the system that you put in.

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