Employees socialize via Facebook messages, share posts and pics with their Facebook friends, browse the pages they are subscribed to via social nets, etc. The networking appears to be an intrusive distraction at workplaces. Employers, who do not want to pay for the Facebook fun of their staff any more, come to the idea of Facebook use monitoring.
What is the best method to monitor Facebook use at workplace?
There are varied types of employee Facebook monitoring and the most suitable is the usage of employee computer monitoring software (More about other methods here: How to Monitor Your Employees’ Facebook Use?).
Employee computer monitoring software is the solution to track Facebook use.
Employee computer monitoring software tracks the Facebook activities of an office staff, including:
– Time of Facebook usage
– Duration of Facebook usage
– The login names of employees using Facebook
The above mentioned is a basic information recorded about Facebook usage. Depending on the employee computer monitoring software used, you can get a variety of information out of the data monitored.
WorkTime is Facebook use monitoring software.
See below how WorkTime monitoring software helps with Facebook usage monitoring.
What You Can Monitor About Facebook Use
WorkTime provides its users with Facebook monitoring reports that assist managers in getting the understanding on how Facebook is being used.
1. Who Uses Facebook
WorkTime allows the managerial staff to see what employee(s)/ departments have been browsing Facebook. It is clear that engaged staff would not waste its working hours to socialize with friends. Moreover, excessive socializing is a sound ground for responsibilities rearrangements.
2. When Facebook Is Being Used
With the help of Facebook monitoring software, you can see when (what time of the working day) Facebook has been accessed. The reports will show employee Facebook habits no matter whether the net is accessed during / before or after the working day.
3. How Long Facebook Is Being Used
The time period (duration) of Facebook use is tracked by the monitoring software. In some cases, 10 minute-distraction could be a legitimate break; whereas, half an hour of Facebook on a daily basis eats millions of corporate costs!
4. Which Computers Are Accessed For Facebook Purposes
The IDs of the computers from which employees access Facebook are being tracked. The data is accurate no matter what computer / laptop / Citrix or Terminal Server has been used.
5. Top Facebook Employees
Software reports provide managers with the information on top facebook users among staff. No one would like to get into this report, providing the management announces the results and applies motivation-demotivation strategy!
6. Top Facebook Computers
Facebook use reports show what computers are most popular for Facebook browsing purposes. Easy to check report might detect the whole departments, where the salary money is being wasted.
7. Facebook Use VS Behavioral Analysis
Employee behavior could be analyzed via WorkTime. Facebook reports enter a wider set of the software reports aimed to identify the patterns employees behave during the working hours. For example, the most wasted hours the staff spends browsing social networks.
8. Facebook Use on Personal Devices – Idle Time Monitoring
When employees browse Facebook via their personal devices (e.g. smart phones, tablets, palmtops, etc.), WorkTime reports show the idle time for employees who have not been actively using their workplace hardware.
Benefits of Using Facebook Monitoring
Using Facebook monitoring is beneficial form a managerial viewpoint.
1. Minimizing Wasted Time
Facebook monitoring facilitates both: HR discipline and managerial time for monitoring. Being aware of the Facebook monitoring software applied, employees tend to be self-organized. Moreover, managers use the reports’ data in the twinkling of an eye.
2. Minimizing Idle Time
When employees do not use their work computers at all, idle ime is being tracked. During the idle time, employees might use their personal gadgets for Facebook fun. Idle time of employees could be minimized due to relevant limitations.
3. Boosting Employee Productivity
Employees who do not fall into distractive social networking, work better, which raises overall productivity. Correspondingly, introducing no-Facebook-during-paid-hours rule would boost HR input.
4. Better Schedules Planning
The time when employees use Facebook could not be considered productive for most cases. Managers being aware about the unproductive working periods of the staff, better timeschedules are planned and agendas developed.
5. Minimizing Money Waste
Employers do not pay nor for the Facebook usage by employees, nor for the false overtimes with WorkTime. If the HR are reported to abuse Facebook usage during their paid hours, for example, overtimes payrolls are not reasonable.
6. Having Clear Real-time Picture
No more secrets! Managers and business owners can get a clear picture of what is going on in the office by applying Facebook monitoring software and analysing relevant software reports.
More benefits of using WorkTime software:
- Facebook monitoring via WorkTime could be applied in combination with its Idle Time report to minimize possible networking via employees’ smartphones and other personal gadgets.
- Facebook Use analytics is included into the set of WorkTime behavioral reports, to show working habits of employees and the level of HR’s engagement into the working process.
- Moreover, WorkTime never tracks nor the content (e.g.messages), nor passwords (entered via keystrokes), being on the legal and ethical side of corporate monitoring.
How To Start Using WorkTime Facebook Monitoring
It is an easy process to install WorkTime, and you do not need to be an IT expert to use the software. The process includes:
- Requesting an evaluation copy;
- Installing the copy according to the comprehensible instructions sent as the answer to your request;
- Using the Facebook monitoring reports in 3 minutes after your initial request!
Clear as ABC, WorkTime installation and application does not require any profound computer skills!
By WorkTime Facebook Monitoring Software www.worktime.com