Many companies today are allowing employees to work remotely. A full third of companies allow some employees to work from home, with up to 25% of Americans telecommuting at least once a week. With new communication technologies, remote employees are fully enabled to get their job done, no matter where they are. But how do we monitor remote employees?

1. Monitoring Employees In A
Remote Workplace
Nick Cavalancia
Patrick Knight

2. Why Monitor Remote Employees?
• Remote creates a sense of
• Empowerment
• Entitlement
• Need to be concerned with
• Employee Engagement
• Employee Productivity
• Organizational Security

3. Why Measure Productivity?
• 92.3% of time is spent doing their job
• What does that unproductive time cost you?
• It’s a little over 3 hours a week
• In a 100-person company…
300 hours/week = 15,000 hours/year = 7.5 employees

4. What Should You Measure?
• Connectivity
• Application Use
• Application Activity

5. How Should You Measure?
• Create a baseline
• Determine how long to measure
• Setup alerting
• Have a response plan
• Consider the tools necessary

6. You May Stumble Upon More Issues
• Employees (Considering) Leaving
• Insider Threats
• Fraud
• Data Theft
• Unwitting Insiders
• Remote can be an easy target

7. Keeping Remote Emps. Productive
• Need to ensure employee engagement
• Remote comes with tangible costs
• Need to tactically measure activity
• Be watchful for HR/security issues

8. Questions?

9. Thank You