How are your people spending their time and your money?

Smooth-IT offers tools to manage and report on the activities for every device you place in our Managed Services. That means you can keep track of who is doing what and how much time they are spending on their tasks (or on something else). While this type of monitoring often gets a negative spin as a “big brother” intrusion, this is a deeper question than merely who is checking Facebook. Internet use that is not in line with your company’s Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) creates major security holes, can introduce viruses, and even bring you out of compliance.

While universally enforcing your AUP is a thankless task and a often a source of internal conflict among employees, failure to do so can create a legal gap. Our tools allow you to block and restrict in accordance with your AUP, and we can take the “personal” feeling out of the equation.

However, as with all security measures, it’s important for you to have policy in place that is appropriate to your circumstances instead of one fueled by paranoia. Looking at device only through an IT lens can inhibit the functionality of your operations and people when they have to jump through hoops to do their jobs. That’s why we offer a business-oriented solution to this common struggle, and can help you develop and enforce a policy that makes sense for your people and your operations.

Maximizing Productivity

The other challenge with unmonitored internet activity is that it can become an invisible profit drain. You can’t see it because you’re already paying the employee wages, so you have no budget to balance and no way to track how much time and dollars are lost. You might be “overspending” without a line item to show for it, and what you don’t know could be affecting your bottom line.

This challenge goes beyond obvious indiscretions like personal internet use while on the clock. Your people may be working hard, but remain mired with time-consuming tasks slowed by software or process. Not only can software and program monitoring help you determine when automating or changing processes becomes more profitable, it can show you where you’re losing valuable resource hours. By applying business solutions to the information gained through these monitoring tools and reports, Smooth-IT can help you maximize the efficiency of your people, and optimize your productivity.