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How to Monitor Employees Working from Home

The shift toward remote work has reshaped how organizations approach productivity and security in a swiftly evolving digital workplace. As businesses of all sizes, industries, and geographies navigate this new work terrain, effectively tracking work-from-home employee activity—particularly employee productivity metrics—reshaped how organizations approach productivity and security has become paramount.

How to Monitor Employee Internet Usage

With employees using company devices and networks at home and in the office, unchecked internet use increases security risks, impacts productivity, and compromises company resources. As an employer, you must protect your business and be ethical when monitoring employee internet usage. Importantly, monitoring without consent or transparency is problematic, so how can you improve workforce productivity and security while respecting privacy?

Employee Monitoring: Ethical Guidelines for Employers

With an increasingly distributed workforce, many businesses today monitor employees—both remote and in-office. There are many reasons why employee monitoring is beneficial for both employer and employee, but any tracking in the workplace understandably raises some eyebrows. Monitoring employees has legal and ethical concerns, so businesses and business owners must take collaboration and transparency seriously.

How to Find Out if an Employee Is Moonlighting

Did you know that around 45% of working Americans have a side hustle (a secondary job) that they work alongside their current job? With costs rising and many feeling underpaid, it’s become widespread for people to pursue dual employment. This practice of working two jobs concurrently is called “moonlighting.” While moonlighting can be a way for employees to earn extra income, it does pose potential risks for employers.

3 reasons why customer centricity feels hard - and how to overcome them

The idea of customer centricity sounds simple enough in theory: Just treat customers well, right? But building a customer-centric culture is about more than just good customer service. In fact, customer centricity is an organizational mindset that shapes everything from product design to entire business functions — even the ones that aren’t necessarily customer-facing. It speaks to an organization’s ability to put the customer at the forefront of all business decisions.

How to use AI to personalize and target internal communications - and why it matters

Information overload is real. Employees are bombarded with emails, texts, instant messages, notifications and more — causing stress, hindering productivity, and increasing the likelihood of important messages getting lost in the clutter. So, how do you cut through the noise as an internal communicator? Personalization and targeting.

Building blocks of success: Creating a finance team structure that works

Having an effectively managed finance department is one of the most important aspects of the intricate world of business management. The people who make up your finance team are crucial for compliance, strategy development, and preserving stable financial circumstances. Whether you work for a small business or a major organization, this is true. This article covers several subjects, including the need to provide your financial team with a sound structure.

Building an efficient design team structure: Key principles and strategies

One of the most important factors that will decide your success in the always-changing field of design is having an effective team structure. The structure of your design team can have a big impact on how creatively and productively you produce solutions, whether you are creating digital experiences, designing products, or creating brand identities.

Can AI enhance both productivity and well-being?

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents itself as a promising position in a world where technological breakthroughs are transforming every part of our lives. However, it’s important to take a moment to reflect on the main goal of these advancements in the midst of the excitement surrounding higher productivity. Should AI not only increase our output but also improve our quality of life?

Project Ghostbuster: Why WhatsApp should not be used in business

Facebook's parent company, Meta, is facing new allegations of allegedly criminal behavior undermining users' privacy. According to a report by TechCrunch, the actions outlined in a new class-action lawsuit don't involve the direct exploitation of user data on Meta's platforms. Instead, they allege the weaponization of existing Meta apps and services to access confidential user data on other platform apps, such as Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube.