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Employee Monitoring: Pros, Cons & Considerations

Organizational leaders and business owners concerned about cybersecurity and productivity are facing a dilemma right now, asking themselves, “How can we build trust with our employees when we need to use employee monitoring tools?” After all, employee monitoring seems antithetical to building employer-employee trust, particularly when you consider that, according to a recent PwC survey, the lack of trust between executives and workers is only growing.

Employee Time Theft: The Silent Killer of Productivity

Employee time theft is not just a minor issue. It costs US companies a staggering 20% of every dollar earned, equating to a massive $400 billion in lost productivity annually. This financial impact underscores the urgent need to address this silent killer of productivity. That staggering number highlights the severe impact of unauthorized activities conducted on company time.

Rocket.Chat and Bluescape forge strategic alliance to strengthen defense operations

Rocket.Chat has partnered with Bluescape, a mission-ready visual workplace, to provide a reliable solution for secure and unified defense operations. This integration will help defense and federal agencies to securely share and manage mission-critical information, collaborate on mission strategies in real-time, connect with key partners to exchange classified intelligence and protect confidential data from unauthorized access, interception, and tampering.

Delivering Customer Support

In the world of youth activity centers, keeping kids engaged and active is paramount. Jackrabbit Technologies, a leader in management software for youth activity centers, has dedicated itself to this mission by ensuring their client support is unparalleled. In this blog post, let’s delve into how Jackrabbit, with a 100% remote workforce spread across several states and even Canada, managed to elevate its customer support from ordinary to extraordinary.

6 ways organizational charts improve company communication

An organizational chart (often called an “org chart” for short) is a visual representation of your company’s structure, including its hierarchy and how departments are connected. In most cases, this diagram is relegated to the company intranet or a random folder. And while you might dust it off for the occasional presentation or update it when you remember, it’s typically viewed as a piece of stagnant documentation as opposed to what it could be: a beneficial resource.