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Net Monitor By ACT

As Low As
$99/mo.

 

 Business Content Management
Increases Employee Productivity

Top Time-Wasting Activities

(%)

1 Surfing Internet (personal use)

44.7%

2 Socializing with co-workers

23.4%

3 Conducting personal business

6.8%

4 Spacing out

3.9%

5 Running errands off-premises

3.1%

6 Making personal phone calls

2.3%

7 Applying for other jobs

1.3%

8 Planning personal events

1.0%

9 Arriving late / Leaving early

1.0%

10 Other

12.5%

 

Top Time-Wasting Excuses

(%)

1 Don't have enough work to do

33.2%

2 Underpaid for amount of work

23.4%

3 Co-workers distract me

14.7%

4 Not enough after-work time

12.0%

5 Other

16.7%

 

Time Wasted During an 8-Hour Workday

Number of Hours/Day

Assumed by HR

0.94 hrs.

Suspected by HR

1.60 hrs.

Admitted by Employees

2.09 hrs.


 1 Source: Wasted Time At Work Costing Companies Billions by Dan Malachowski at Salary.com


Recent studies show that employees waste between 15% and 26% of their workday on non-business related distractions.  Over 44 percent of employees polled said the lure of the Internet for personal use tends to get the better of them. 1   While we all like to think that it’s the ”other guy” that they’re talking about, the truth is we really can’t be sure how employees spend their day without hovering over their shoulders.  The most common source of these distractions?  Well, we’ll give you a hint.  You put it on your employees desk yourself!  That’s right!  You did it yourself!  You put that beautiful computer on the desk and then you connected it to that virtual amusement park called the Internet.

Whether or not you intended to create that time waster, that Internet connection can be a real distraction to employees.  Nonproductive time wasting can be as harmless as looking up her recipe for dinner tonight , to your facilitating a gambling addiction for one of your employees by providing access to online gambling sites.

Now before you all run over and rip out your Internet connection, consider this,  A new Harris Poll suggests that fully 71% of people who are online at work say the Internet has increased their productivity.

How do you control Internet access without being perceived as a tyrant? That’s where  Net Monitor comes in.  It’s a simple device that watches your Internet traffic and stops access to sites that you don’t want your staff visiting on company time. 

Net Monitor can stop access immediately or simply monitor traffic and report on usage. 

Are you interested in how your Internet connection is being used?  You can get weekly or monthly reports that show’s who went where and when.  Net Monitor makes it all easy and transparent.  No expensive hardware to buy, no maintenance headaches!

Net Monitor requires little or no maintenance on your part.  Unlike some access control systems that are require customization and perpetual monitoring, Net Monitor does it all for you.  Just complete a short checklist for our engineers specifying your access rules and we do the rest.

There’s also no huge cash outlay for equipment either.

All maintenance for your Net Manager is included in one low monthly management fee. We take care of everything for you so you can concentrate on your business.  Each month you’ll get a traffic analysis of your office Internet usage. You’ll know what sites were most frequently visited and what sites were blocked from view and who attempted the access.  What could be easier? 

Call us today for more information on implementing your own Internet Net Manager today at (847) 639-7000.



 
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