Computers may have made some things easier, but they have also reorganized a number of things. You may observe your employees. Nobody just sits around. And at the same time they might be simply writing their blog or reading news. Will you get your hands on that dirty spyware? Is there really no better way for internet monitoring?

Some superiors had to make hard choices in the past. Only spyware was available for computer monitoring . Spyware is the name for software applications that make screenshots, copy text the user inputs into their computer, monitor traffic. Yes, you get the power. You could make the employees very unhappy. You can lose respect of your people, because you are effectively violating their privacy.

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