IT Employee Monitoring Questions

Toggle your teams status to “away” at all times; solved.

This is an HR question, not an IT one...Could we tell HR what you have been doing and about how long you have/have not been doing it, sure...We do have entire depts that relegate a few people to simply passively monitor security issues in case things like this come up, but again, HR question

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Why not just say what they were doing? Or give some hint as to what he was doing?

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sounds like OP was browsing departments that they are not a part of

If you are really concerned about your Teams status turning to yellow during “zoom meetings”, there are little usb dongles you can buy on Amazon for $5. It essentially just moves your mouse around and it keeps active.

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what kind of employee information is monitored and tracked for employers related to the work day?

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Depends on the employer, potentially everything

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I am curious if there are reports for employers based on this data?

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Depends on the employer, if they have monitoring software installed, yes there is.

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Also, are there reports generated based on activities such as downloading a set of files from SharePoint?

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Depends on the employer, they can certainly generate that if they have monitoring software installed

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If I was in corporate IT or if I was a manager could I request to see an individual's historical activities?

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Depends on the employer, but yes you could.


I think you get the jest of my post. There is monitoring software they can remote install and track basically everything you do. Are they installing it, who knows?

Our general rule as System Admins has been to make sure our network is as secure as possible. Our fight is mostly to keep people from falling victim to spam/phishing email scams that open up our network to rasomware etc.... We've been lucky, but people are dumb and do dumb shite, so we are always ice skating uphill if you know what I mean.

With the above mentioned, we don't "monitor people", we monitor traffic. Watching traffic tells us what we need to know. BUT, if traffic is pointing to a specific thing/user, then we take action if it's serious.

Basically what I am saying is, if you don't give your employer's IT group a reason to watch you and your traffic, don't do sketchy shite. If you are fricking around, do it in moderation. Not the amount that would bring attention to yourself.

As others have said, it really depends on the company and management.

The IT staff has the potential to be able to see everything from login times to individual keystrokes, what it comes down to is what executive management gives them the authority to monitor (and by "monitor" I mean "normally just looking at traffic for uncommon use like big bandwidth spikes or attempts to go to pedo.thailand.com" or someone who repeatedly goes to sites which send out alerts because those sites have some sort of malware which is being blocked).

Other than making note of anomalies, the only other thing is generally going to be pulling data due to a member of management requesting records on a specific user. This could mean browsing data, emails, etc. and could even get down to "record every keystroke they make" (but that's rare).