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When employee monitoring is brought up in conversation in the workplace, employees automatically put themselves in the "Big Brother" situation. They feel that their privacy is being invaded, and that the level of trust the company has for them is non-existent, therefore creating trust issues for the employee. A company though has numerous reasons for monitoring employee activity that do not necessarily have to do with the employee. Here are a few examples:
As a company, using your own internal reasons to monitor employee Internet usage may help your case in monitoring employees in general. Bandwidth issues, and PC performance are examples of why you might need to monitor for business purposes. Be sure to include these and others when discussing the need to monitor employee Internet activity with your staff.
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