Employee monitoring goes remote

23.11.2006
Software manufacturer Oleansoft Wednesday released upgrades to a software package designed to monitor, and record, employee productivity either remotely or in real-time.

The package, Oleansoft Hidden Camera 250X1, records screenshots and activity for up to 250 client desktops and instantly transmits desktop changes, filters out images such as screensavers and features an "off-line work timecounter"with statistics fed to a management console.

The software package runs on various flavours of Windows and requires a 100M bps TCP/IP network. The licence is on a per-desktop basis.

The current upgrade (Version 2.23) supports grouping of employees (up to 25 groups) and sorting by employees and scale by work time.

Andrew Khorkin, Oelansoft CEO, said the software automates employee and network monitoring, doesn't require additional staff and is appropriate for both managerial and security needs.

Khorkin said company desktops are often used for private correspondence and Instant Messaging and as a result, employees are getting paid for activities that are not work related.