The latest 'big brother is watching you' workplace application is out on the market, called Time Hunter.
Released this week by software company Structu Rise, Time Hunter is a Windows application that makes it easy for business managers to keep track of how their employees spend their time on the computer, whether the employees are working alone, part of an office workgroup, or distributed in virtual offices around the globe.
When the workplace was centralised, managers could walk around, see what their employees were working on, and ensure that they were, indeed, working.
In today's virtual workplace, with teams of employees deployed in different countries and different time zones, managers need to use software applications to monitor workers' PC-related activities.
Similarly, say vendors, parents can use Time Hunter to keep track of their children's activities.
Each system with Time Hunter installed builds a log of each user's computer activities, capturing the user ids, the applications that they're running, the documents they're using, and any keystrokes or mouse clicks that they make.
Unlike old-fashioned time reporting systems that rely upon the goodwill and good memory of employees to accurately enter information about what they worked on, Time Hunter gathers the data in the background, without the employees having to spend any time doing data entry, and without them being aware that their computer activities are being recorded.
The program's data files are tamper-proof, prohibiting employees or management from distorting the information.
At the end of the workday, these logs are automatically sent to the manager, over the LAN or via e-mail.
New way to keep an eye on workplace PC activity
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