If you're a CEO or Manager, you'll be more than concerned that employees are focused on working from home and not surfing the internet while you're paying them.
With governments increasing their control over the population, you too can take advantage of the Digital Transformation to increase control over your workforce and ensure they are producing at their best.
Take note of this video where I will show you how you can use technology to control your employees and monitor their productivity.
And stay tuned to the end of this video and this article as I will give you a list of the best technology tools to implement total control.
Due to the recent crisis, managers are having a hard time delivering projects and meeting objectives. The problem is that the company's employees do not know how to work remotely and are distracted at home.
When I advise company management committees, they ask me to have more control over employees and especially at this time when people can only work from home. You want to control the employees' schedule, the time they are on each website, whether they are typing or not, whether they are in contact with the competition or whether they are skipping a policy.
Well, let's look at the different techniques:
Putting a company laptop to each employeeThe first is, if you haven't done so before, to put a company laptop to each employee. Some companies are tempted to have employees use their own home computers (BYOD) to save money, but this is a mistake because we lose control.
When the company puts in the PCs, we restrict the administrator's permissions and have more control over what programs are installed, what access they have, and we can configure only the icons of the work applications, no distractions.
In addition, with this technique we can install very interesting control tools that I will explain at the end of the video.
Business of the Future - the best training for digital entrepreneursSet up a mandatory VPN accessThe second technique is to control that employees are connected at all times.
To do this we set up a mandatory VPN access, so that the only way to go online is through the company's servers. In this way we will have controlled all the connection schedules and the employees will not be able to connect to anything without first going through the company's servers where we will keep a record of all the connection activity.
Give the employee a cell phone with tracking applicationsThe third technique is to do the same with mobiles. By forcing employees to have a company mobile, we can know their location at all times and call them without it seeming so intrusive in their personal lives. In addition, we can have remote control over the device and authorize only the use of the applications that interest us and block all other apps. If employees want to install any application that is not on our list, they will have to ask our permission. There are also programs that allow us to record telephone conversations, which are very interesting for controlling commercials or if we suspect any manager.
Implementing a proxy or web filtering systemThe fourth is to implement a system of proxy and Web Filtering. This allows you to control which websites employees browse. The staff wastes a lot of time surfing the internet and with these systems you can cut off access to all social networks, cut off whatsapp, telegram, etc... and also be notified at the time they break any rule in case you have to give any warning to the employee.
Resiliente Digital - Club de Empresarios de TecnologíaBlocking the USB and Bluetooth portsThe fifth is to block the USB ports of the computers. Many employees steal company data and take databases with customer lists and confidential information such as patents to the competition. By blocking the ports, we prevent them from taking anything and we have more control. You should also block access to gMail, Hotmail, Google drive and personal Outlook.
Control movement in social networksThe sixth technique is to control what your employees do on social networks.
If an employee on vacation behaves in a way that is not aligned with the company's culture, you may have a reputation crisis. Employees have to look and feel good at all times. To control this, ask HR for personal profiles in social networks and implement some social monitoring tool to identify photos and videos with unwanted behavior and prove the facts before a judge if you need to fire someone without compensation.
Prohibit any professional meeting, videoconference or meetup other than the official onesThe seventh is that you forbid by policy to participate in any professional meeting, videoconference or meetup other than the official ones of the company. Right now on LinkedIn there are many distractions and there is a great risk that your employees, when making professional contacts outside the company, will share strategic plans or confidential company information, or even leave to work with others. employee control software