As technology continues to advance in leaps and bounds, it has become obvious that the need for monitoring software is growing more and more and, nowhere is this more obvious than in the workplace.
While we would all like to believe that our employees are fully dedicated to their jobs 100% of the time, the reality is that legal and ethical issues, linked directly to the use of the Internet, as well as various social media sites are becoming more and more frequent ? putting the employer in a very delicate and sensitive position.
As the laws of the land slowly, but surely catch up with the age of technology, we are seeing more and more responsibility being shifted to the employer, when it comes to the monitoring of their employee?s Internet usage and all evidence points to the fact that this trend will continue.

In the last decade, there has been a lot of media attention given to cases where employees were found looking at or somehow encouraging child pornography, while on company time. Not surprisingly the employers were, in many cases, responsible for tracking down and turning over many of these offenders.

In reality, employers do have a moral, ethical and legal obligation to make sure that their employees are not committing illegal acts, while in their employ, on their premises, using company property. This, unfortunately, has forced many employers to install monitoring software in order to keep track of computer activity, remotely or otherwise.

While child porn and sexual harassment are two of the major reasons more and more employers are now monitoring their employee?s computer activity, time management or, more specifically, serious loss of productivity, thanks to personal computer use, is also something that appears to be a growing problem for many companies and this, directly affects the financial bottom line.
It seems that employees are being caught using company time to ?surf? the Net and visit various social media sites, write and answer personal emails and even plan that next family vacation. It is estimated that as much as 2.5 hours of each work day is now being dedicated to personal web browsing and this number seems to be climbing. This clearly explains why so many employers have had to enlist monitoring devices such as Keylogger and Keystroller, as well as other types of software programs, that are specifically designed to keep track of an employee?s computer activity.

In short, as technology continues to grow, so will monitoring needs.