What is the best thing to use to monitor employee attendance?
930764
use a fingerprint or other bio-scanner - it's the best way to avoid potential problems with employee malfeasance.
520050
Assuming you mean monitoring employee's e-mail originating from company computers, I would not favor the law.  Employers lose millions of hours of productivity to online gaming and other personal uses of the internet such as personal e-mail, all on the employer's bill.  Employee use of internet resources should be monitored and those that abuse the system for hours each day should be docked pay for every hour they waste.
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Always record it as it allows you to better document your tech support efficiency and customer service. You want to reduce the turn-around time to a little as possible. Lets you know how good your tech support people are and if they need more/better tools, or more/better people.\nIt gives you info on what customers seem to have trouble with what technology/software. Alerts you to whiners or people who need serious help. lol. Also, with a well documented system, you have more support behind you if someone says they called in but they didn't.\nAnd finally, so you don't forget about someone's problem.
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There are FREE demos, but not totally free. I have not found a company offering this type of software for free.\n\nHere is a very good listing of various performance review software \n\nhttp://www.hr-guide.com/data/209.htm
8509
if this is for a business application - check out \n\nwww.quickbase.com\n\nThis product rocks!  It does what you're asking but web based for multiple users with numerous reporting features and more. \n\nThere's a 30 day free trial and it's about 250 per month.
1027047
use a computer calender
908221
The question has a broad scope, but if it's a crm solution you are considering I would offer you this -  evaluate vtiger crm and the suite of plugins it has.  much better, cheaper solution than the ms crm.
290484
You can use a website tracking code like this one:\nhttp://www.statcounter.com/\n\nI've used this before and it's pretty easy to use. You can see where the person who visits your site lives, they're ip address and how many visitors you have at any given day.
853477
I would recommend investing in some bright movement censored lights. This will alert you to any movements. For the day time use movement censors with buzzers.
1153107
Good way to track performance of investments. Any other data related job
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soft-Q Human Resources Suite 2.0\n\nManage employees, evaluations, assign vacation time off, track wages, highlight absenteeisms, organize your business contacts, generate custom reports and more - all with one human resource software system. \n\n\nDownload a Risk Free, 15 day Trial!
1135735
Zone Alarm.\nTry it and you'll see.\nANd one more thing: if avg or any other free programs would be so good.... why are those free?????
1079491
Check with your company HR department.
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Try the site below. They even offer free software to load and track your ancesters.
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It is very likely that your employes are monitoring your computer usage at work.  77.7% of major employes monitor their employees' internet, phone, computer and work activities.  The rules for workplace monitoring favor employers. There are no federal laws that regulate monitoring employees. Only two states, Delaware and Connecticut, have laws that require employers to notify employees if the company monitors them.  This is due to the fact that the computers in the office are supplied for the primary benefit of the company... not the staff person's personal use.\n\nCompanies maintain that by utilizing web based mail applications such as Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail, the employee is putting the business in much greater risk of viruses and worms entering the network.\n\nAn American Management Association survey, which involved 526 U.S. companies, states that about 25 percent of employers have fired workers for misusing the Internet; another 25 percent have terminated employees for inappropriate use; and 6 percent have fired employees for misusing office telephones.\n\nAnd it is very cost effective, at around $10 per employee per year for larger companies.  And keeping your passwords safe, clearing your cache and your cookies, and not having your computer remember any passwords will not stop your employer from being able to see what you are up to.\n\nComputer monitoring may include keystoke logging, software monitoring, or applications to view what you see on your monitor.  Sniffers placed on networks can also pinpoint employees who are using the network bandwidth by activities such as downloading music or listening to web based radio stations.\n\nMy recommendation if you want to be able to check your personal mail from the workplace and protect both your job and your privacy is to have a web enabled mobile device that you own to do this on.  If you intend to do this infrequently, then most phones with web access will work for brief usage.  If you will be doing this on a frequent basis, then you're better to go with a much faster private method, such as a Treo web enabled device.
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With out any doubt, the best one I've come across is called tcp/IQ. This is a free service out of Australia that monitors your upload and download connections as often as you like during the day and it keeps a database of data for you and shows you graphical information for the last 24 hours, the last week, and the last year. \n\nIt really came through for me when my service fell below the level I purchased. I was able to document my claims and got a better response to fix it. It's called LineSpeed Meter by tcp/IQ\n\nYou should definitely check it out.
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Something like QuickBooks should do the job.