Employee Proof Web Filtering
Your staff need access to the Internet to do their job properly. What you don’t need is all the time they spend on it for personal use that could be costing you thousands. It’s a fact: Internet abuse affects your profitability by reducing their productivity.
It also exposes you to viruses and spyware that could bring down your entire IT infrastructure and even your business.
Here’s the scale of the problem:
30 to 40% of Internet use during company time is NOT related to business
- 64% of employees admit to using the Internet at work for personal interest
- 70% of all Internet porn traffic occurs in business hours
- 27% of businesses have dismissed staff for Internet misuse
- 60% of online purchases are made during office hour
Apart from the money it’s costing you, personal Internet use on company time is a flagrant abuse of your trust. In the case of some of the extreme adult sites, it may even be illegal.
The Smart Employee Proof Web Filter. Now you choose exactly what your employees view online. The Smart Employee Web Filter is a software solution that sits between your Internet server and your staff to monitor and restrict personal use of the net. By analysing recurring words and phrases, the system ‘scores’ requested websites for banned or restricted content, sending an ‘access denied’ notice to the user if it exceeds preset limits.
It also sweeps all downloads from the Internet for viruses or spyware as a matter of course.
The Smart Employee Proof Web Filter is easily managed from a central website. Restrict Internet use by website name, category or by staff members. Whatever you decide. It can be installed quickly and easily, either on your existing IT system or a dedicated machine. Best of all, starting at just £300 per year for initial system setup and support, it could show a return on investment in just a little over a month.
What is personal Internet use by your employees costing your business? Work it out with this easy calculation table. We’ve based the figures on an average SME with an average hourly wage structure, but you can easily adapt it to match your business:
- Number of employees – 20
- Average time spent on Internet unrelated to work – 10 minutes per employee per day
- Average wage - £10 per hour
- 20 employees x 10 minutes wasted:
- Total time wasted in 1 day – 3.3 Hours
- Total times wasted in 5 days –16.6 Hours
- Total time in 1 month – 66.6 Hours
- Hours x average hourly rate = Money Lost
- Total cost of 1 month’s Internet surfing: £666.60
- Total cost of 1 year: £8000
Add to these figures the cost of any machines or software that are ‘sabotaged’ by Internet viruses, the loss of critical business records or the impact of ‘malware’ – software that detects bank details and passwords on your machines – and you begin to appreciate just how serious a challenge Internet abuse is to today’s business.
