It might be quite a challenge to manage a number of employees who have PCs at their desks. You may observe your employees. Everybody seems so hardworking. And at the same time they may be simply chatting online or reading news. Should you try to spying on them? Or is there probably a more honest and transparent way of internet monitoring?

Some supervisors had to make hard choices in the past. Only spyware was available for computer monitoring . Spyware is the name for computer applications that make screenshots, copy text entered from the keyboard, watch over traffic. With spyware you have more control than you would want. The problem is that you may lose something else. It is not easy to respect and trust people who spy on you.

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