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Businesses sometimes use workplace surveillance as a way of monitoring the activities of their employees. Today’s businesses often use information technology in their operations and communications; while the use of computers is a very popular work activity, employees often can do more than just work. It is said that a large percentage of employees use their work computers to perform what is referred to as “cyber-slacking”. Cyber-slacking occurs because of the distractions to the user that exist with the internet, and wastes valuable work time. Employers may perceive this as unfair, and there exist surveillance systems that could act as an assurance for the employer that the job is being done during work time.

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1 Types of workplace surveillance
2 Pros and cons of workplace surveillance
3 External link
4 See also

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Types of workplace surveillance
There are many types of surveillance that could be instituted in the workplace. The most popular form of workplace surveillance is computer surveillance, which is a rapidly growing industry. This is also known as “employee internet management”. Computer surveillance can be broken up into two types: “internet Businesses surveillancesurveillance”, and “desktop surveillance”.

“Internet surveillance” is the active surveillance of the user’s internet activities. When users operate a computer on the internet, a record of the sites that were visited and the operations that were performed by the user can be generated by internet surveillance software. Also known as spyware, this software is able to track the user’s activities and report it to the administrator. The administrator can then report this to the employer with various techniques.

“Desktop surveillance” on the other hand, works by the employer’s computer intercepting a signal that is given off by the employee’s computer. That is done through specific surveillance software that could be remotely or physically installed on the employee’s machine.

A similar but different technique involves an employer reading the email traffic sent to and from employees. Generally, if friction arises, the dispute revolves around inappropriate or non-job-related use of email by an employee. As with the telephone, many employers formally or informally permit some amount of personal email. However, inordinate or inappropriate use of a work-related email account, such as soliciting customers for an employee-owned small business, is simply goading the employer into taking action.

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Pros and cons of workplace surveillance
Even though much useful software exists, some employers still prefer the traditional methods of surveillance. Methods such as eavesdropping on phone calls, recording the phone calls or even video recording are still being used in all types of businesses.

Workplace surveillance can benefit the employer in many cases, and in some cases it can even have a benefit for the employee. Theft in the workplace is a common reason for workplace surveillance, which can often mean losses to the company, and thusly losses to the employer in terms of benefits such as security as well. Most of these negative aspects involve privacy, de-motivation, and stress.

Over the years of creating stock control solutions for clients, we found that too many small businesses were not using adequate inventory management tools, either keeping a tally of all their stock in their heads or using inefficient paper based systems, leaving a mess of paper trails everywhere, confounding the inventory control process.

Inevitably, we found that these potential clients were desperately looking for a business tool to manage their inventory, preferably before they reached the critical point where inventory management was taking over the valuable time that could be spent working on building the business.

More and more small business owners approached us for a solution, but were not prepared to pay for the premium products we, or any of our competitors, offered because of the bottom line cost.

Even the argument that improper stock control leads to higher costs (the cost of doing things wrong!), would not persuade them to purchase, much to their own detriment.

Some of our potential clients were in the situation where their Inventory had taken over their storage and office space, with no knowledge of where an individual stock item might be, other than a general location where it should be, but things would move, disappear, reappear or be completely lost.

Mislaid stock is mislaid capital, and keeping your bottom line healthy means knowing where all your cashflow and capital is. Stock costing thousands is capital tied into the business, but these business owners could not see the potential of cost savings through stock management software costing hundreds of pounds.Small Business Stock Control

A few hundred pounds purchasing the correct tools is thousands of pounds saved when your inadequate inventory management is sucking up your capital.

There are stock control programs out on the net for mere tens of dollars like this one www.stock-control-programs.com or just search on www.download.com or www.tucows.com for stock control programs, and more than likely there’ll be one to fit your business.

If you want to save costs, just make sure it fits the 80/20 rule to compare each product against another - if it does 80% of what you require for 20% of the cost of the next best product, then your initial ROI is much greater.

When your business expands and grows, then you can re-evaluate the business tools you have, re-evaluate your budget and compare your potential software tools at a later date, for its a simple fact that most small businesses trying to gain momentum require every dollar that it can muster.

Inventory Management Systems and Stock Control software in general is a very highly saturated market, with hundreds of software houses producing sophisticated systems for all types of industry.

This is how the small software house can be a key niche player in the market, by specialising and targeting certain industries, rather than try to be a swiss army knife program.

A solid functional system is the basis of good stock control, with a simply laid out, well designed interface, which eases the learning curve for new users. Then one must look at the target user, to add further precision in the marketplace.

Split the target end user into groups of user level and computer competence, and design for that level of computer literacy. It is reasonable to assume that most people working in the stock warehouse or sales office of a retail or wholesale distribution business are fairly IT literate, and know their way around a keyboard and mouse, but even then, one should design and cater for the lowest level of competency.

Information Technology should be ubiquitous, much as the mobile cellphone is becoming, and so this simple phrase should be the motto running in the heads of all software engineers. Make it easy to use, so that every one can use it.

So the HighControl Stock Control Business Management software was designed with low IT literacy in mind, although many functions are for the more experienced computer user, the daily tasks of stock purchase, entry, sales, despatching and invoicing are made to be simple to use, and with lowered times of competency by design.

Reason? We saw that many office users, salespeople, warehouse staff and other operational job roles, did not require or have to use IT equipment, any more than a cursory check of email and the web. So their user experience was limited to email programs, browsers and, usually, games. So when introducing a new Stock Control system, it had to be logical and easy to learn & use.

Also, by targeting a specific industry niche, the IT wholesale distributor, it benefitted our target customer by recognising and meeting those needs of that particular industry, so new customers could find all they need straight out of the box, and take control of their inventory problems.

Although we have changed our off-the-shelf package, it is still aimed at the retail or wholesale distributor, taking sales over the phone, email or web, with the occasional walk in customer. The system is set up in such a way that the goods out/despatch is central to operation, so, unlike an EPOS system, it is based on the gereration of a Sales Order, or a Pro-Forma invoice, rather than scan out operation at a till like a supermarket, though we also have scan out capability for faster sales order generation.

Yes of course Stock Control can be free!

Yes, I agree, you can goto an Open Source site and get a solution, but as you said, its if you have the brains, or rather, if you have the experience in programming, or the technical aptitude and the time to learn.

If you’re a small business owner who ISN’T also a programmer, then a ready made system is the ideal way to go.

A company that does nothing but create business software solutions will have the know how and support resources that a small business owner will need, so open source is not ideal for everybody.

I do like the idea of leasing and its a great way to go for those on a tight budget and wanting quite specific software, but generalised software is there for a reason, because it meets the ‘general’ demographics of a large majority of users.

Again, apply the 80/20 rule - can I buy a product that matches 80% or more of my requirements, for 20% of the cost of having a product made to meet all my requirements - this simple rule helps save costs and forces one to review essential requirements and compare the bells and whistles.