When discussing Employee Monitoring with your staff, be sure to show them how monitoring helps create an efficient work environment by allowing the company to provide proper bandwidth, and system tools that allow each employee to do their job.

When employee monitoring is brought up in conversation in the workplace, employees automatically put themselves in the "Big Brother" situation. They feel that their privacy is being invaded, and that the level of trust the company has for them is non-existent, therefore creating trust issues for the employee. A company though has numerous reasons for monitoring employee activity that do not necessarily have to do with the employee. Here are a few examples: