Application for monitoring the employees
Hello everyone, I am new on this forum.
I want to ask if there is any application(for network) for Mac through wich a firm can monitor at any time what is displayed and processed in her's employees computers? Or what was displayed, accesed and processed in people's computers?
Also how can someone(the employee) figure if his Mac activity is monitored from outside with a feature of this kind?
Thank you
I want to ask if there is any application(for network) for Mac through wich a firm can monitor at any time what is displayed and processed in her's employees computers? Or what was displayed, accesed and processed in people's computers?
Also how can someone(the employee) figure if his Mac activity is monitored from outside with a feature of this kind?
Thank you
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Originally posted by ALM
Ask KGB, they should have it.
They should also have the aluminum foil cranium shields in stock as well.
I don't know about the monitoring part, but if you think you are being watched, you probably are. So I wouldn't visit any "how to process uranium" sites...
Originally posted by hmurchison
Apple Remote Desktop
Or any VNC software they've installed; Chicken of the VNC comes to mind. How to check: If Activity Monitor reveals processesd called "ARDAgent" or "VNC", or probably anything with the word "security" or anything you don't know what it is (only for the *NIXy), or you notice network activity when only Finder is running, etc, etc, etc.
Originally posted by ALM
Ask KGB, they should have it.
LOL
Am I the only one here who thinks that he likes of Artanis should be given the death penalty for treating all his/her employees like criminals?
Originally posted by kaiwai
LOL
Am I the only one here who thinks that he likes of Artanis should be given the death penalty for treating all his/her employees like criminals?
It is not my firm man. I work at a firm and I want to know if I'm monitored in some way.
Ok, guys I have another question, do you recognise from the pictures attached some application of this kind in my activity monitor? the user "teo" is me.
If the images are not displayed (again) click here and here
So, what do you think?
Originally posted by Artanis
Problem solved.
So, what do you think?
None of those tasks are Apple Remote Desktop.
Originally posted by Artanis
[B]It is not my firm man. I work at a firm and I want to know if I'm monitored in some way.
Yes, and you know babe, if you allocated some time during the day, say, during their lunch break, when they're allowed to surf the internet, you would find that they wouldn't use it during work time - its about giving a little and taking a little.
But hey, I'm one of these 'newage' managers who believe in communication and open dialogue - silly me, maybe I should go off and blow my brains out, because I'm not in with this 1984 monitoring movement that seems to so prevalent.
Originally posted by kaiwai
Yes, and you know babe, if you allocated some time during the day, say, during their lunch break, when they're allowed to surf the internet, you would find that they wouldn't use it during work time - its about giving a little and taking a little.
But hey, I'm one of these 'newage' managers who believe in communication and open dialogue - silly me, maybe I should go off and blow my brains out, because I'm not in with this 1984 monitoring movement that seems to so prevalent.
babe? who is babe? I'm no babe.
About the things that u said I think that is very good that u believe in communication and u trust your employees. Because as long as they have what to do, and the tasks in a firm usually are demanding they will even forget that they can "surf the net".
I have posted this thread because I just wanted to know if I am watched, I have an internet connection at home, but this sort of thing is influencing alot your perception from the point of view of the employee, more than u know.
Originally posted by Artanis
You surf, you chat and you send mails. Do you do any work as well?
Originally posted by Anders
You surf, you chat and you send mails. Do you do any work as well?
The pictures where taken before I start the usual Word, Excel and the website online editor that I am working with.
I fired up ARD Wednesday afternoon and observed one young lady's screen who was using Safari. No problem, she was use a web-based clip art service we subscribe to. In the list of users was another young lady using QuarkXPress. No problem, we publish a handful of newspapers and she's working on one. I observe her screen. What! She was working on a project for her freelance job on my equipment running my software while I pay her money.
Monday will be an eventful day.
Originally posted by fahlman
For all those people who think monitoring employees is so outrageous:
I fired up ARD Wednesday afternoon and observed one young lady's screen who was using Safari. No problem, she was use a web-based clip art service we subscribe to. In the list of users was another young lady using QuarkXPress. No problem, we publish a handful of newspapers and she's working on one. I observe her screen. What! She was working on a project for her freelance job on my equipment running my software while I pay her money.
Monday will be an eventful day.
Did you have to let your employees know you had that capability before they started working for you? I have a small business too and am curious about that type of monitoring. Not that we have a problem or anything...
It is my general view that the employer has to trust his employees and if he wants to check anything do it visible. Go to that workers desk, talk to him and see what he is doing. In general its for the better for all. An atmosphere of suspicion doesn´t make a good work place. If someone is bending the rules too much the colleagues will normally react, either by telling the person himself or if that doesn´t help, eventually the boss.
At my last job this worked perfectly. We were trusted in our work and that gave us some freedom that eventually was a benefit for the firm. I even think talking behind the back of the boss in emails can sometimes be good for the workflow. During the last three months I was there we were in a process of merging with an equal sized competitor (each firm had about 700 employees). A lot of processes had to be united and some people was unwilling to be flexible in that period. Luckily enough in my group we knew someone in almost all other parts of the firm so if we had problems going one way we found another way around the barriere. And that involved talking bad about superiors. But in the end we were able to give a lot of feedback on how things could be organized better that the managers would ever have been able to come up with on their own.
Due to the nature of the business (cellular phone service) we also had a lot of communication with our competitors that was handed by my group. On some issues the loyalty was stronger among the group of workers in the different companies than towards our own company, making a lot of things much much easier on the long run. Like doing free routing of calls that only served to the benefit of the competitor, freeing large customers of their contracts from us if the other company had made a screw up they didn´t want the customer to discover or even compensating large sums for the same screw u that wasn´t our responsibility. All that without the knowledge of the bosses.
If they had know the content of our emails or how large sums of compensations we gave on behalf of other companies they would probably have made a big fuss about it. But they trusted that whatever we did it would be to the benefit of the company on a whole and stayed out of the details. Even spending a half day just surfing the internet will in some situations be to the benefit of a company. But it wouldn´t look good in the eyes of a boss just checking in on the content of your screen in a given moment.