The Days Of Blogging At Work May Soon Be Over!
Yikes! This can’t be good! Annapolis company’s systems help to monitor employees’ computer use:
ETelemetry in Annapolis specializes in business intelligence, helping firms to track their own technology infrastructure and people, to find out who’s working diligently and who’s updating a MySpace profile or rearranging a Netflix queue. The bane of office loafers everywhere, eTelemetry’s Metron and Locate network trackers can pinpoint individual “bandwidth hogs” on a company’s network, even tallying the time individual employees spend surfing the net.
“Web pages aren’t very big. You can surf all day and it wouldn’t show on a bandwidth graph,” said Mr. Schunemann, eTelemetry’s chief technology officer.
And the average worker spends a lot of time surfing. According to a recent survey by America Online and salary.com, Maryland ranks 16th in the nation for time wasted at work, with 2.4 hours a day going down the tubes, costing employers an estimated $17 billion in wages annually. Missouri workers rank as the nation’s loafing kings, with more than three hours of each workday squandered.
While a quarter of that time went to chit-chat with co-workers and two minutes of company time went to looking for a new job, by far the most common time drain was the Internet. Workers blow an hour each day just surfing the Net.
