It might be quite a challenge to manage a number of employees who have PCs at their desks. You may watch your employees. They seem to be working. And at the same time they might be simply writing their blog or reading news. Should you try to spying on them? Or is there perhaps a more honest and transparent way of internet monitoring?

In the past the choice for superiors who wanted some control was limited. They had to install spyware. Spyware is the name for software applications that make screenshots, copy text entered from the keyboard, control traffic. So you get control. The problem is that you could lose something else. You can lose respect of your people, because you are effectively breaking their privacy.

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