Why it is important to monitor the work of employees?

Here are some statistics for 2009 related to internet usage at work which should easyly answer this question:

- Employees are checking personal e-mail up to 5 times per day during working hours

- 24% of employees spend more than one hour on social networks during working time

- Facebook is the most popular social network and 90% of the employees are logging periodically into their accounts from work

- In over 90% of cases, time for lunch break is exceeded by employees

- The average time spend by an employee on chat is 30 minutes per day

- Illegal downloads at work have increased by 55%

- Exiting workers taking confidential data with them