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If you think WhatsApp can be an Escape then Wrong you are

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If one thinks that employers can be fooled or if employers think they cannot monitor employees for IMs like WhatsApp, both are pretty naïve (to be modest). WhatsApp Spy is easily a best resource to get to know what employees are up to in any case. Time and again employees have been reported by top authorities of not being at the best while doing job work. The overnight success of WhatsApp has always been because of its ability to bypass the monitoring of message based communication in any form. So this issue was easily dealt with; by new generation of techies. If one can make it, one can break it as well and more importantly one can keep a check on it.

What’s Up? Don’t ask what’s up since I know your WhatsApp

It is an obvious thing that no one wants to work tirelessly. But over the years man’s laziness has started crossing limits. It has become unavoidable for people to look for excuses or exit gates in case of doing work. If one gets a little more careful then it is easy to get to know that WhatsApp can be monitored and all the plans for anything during job hours from a smartphone by company can be easily traced.

It is good to be loyal and loyalty always pays. This has been an old saying but works universally in modern age. In the end one only gets the fruits of hard work and loyalty since there is no substitute to hard work.


Out Of Sight Shouldn’t Mean Out Of Mind!

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When handling employees that are not in your sight constantly, you must to make certain that they are not overlooked. Ignoring them will make them get away with all the mischiefs and in the end it will be you who will suffer the damage and no one else. In case you are continuously busy with your business trips outside office premises and don’t have enough time for your employees, you need to know the reasons to stay connected to your employees and their activities all the time.

Reasons your employees want to be monitored

There are countless reasons as to why your employees want you to monitor them. Highlighting a few will help you understand your employees better than ever before:

  1. Your employee needs your constant attention whether you believe it or not. If they don’t get the feeling of being watched or being monitored then they will definitely end up losing their interest in work and will keep themselves busy in other personal activities. This will decrease your business productivity a lot more than you can imagine.
  2. Monitoring your employees will give birth to sense of security amongst them as employees will know that they can never be falsely accused of leaking any confidential information or sexual harassment because all their activities are already being monitored by the organization.
  3. When they know that they are being monitored, they will inevitably trust that the appraisals that they receive are truly based on their performance that is constantly being monitored and they will work harder to make sure that they get promotion as they have no doubt about not being monitored.
  4. As by getting monitored, they will not waste their time in useless activities. This will help them leave office in time and spend time with their family. So, they will never feel angry or grumpy about having to work anymore.

Use StealthGenie, the best phone tracker ever invented and give your employees the attention that they deserve from you without having to be physically present in your office all the time. Because attention should be given where it is due to establish healthy and friendly relations with your employees.

How to tackle disruptive employees without any trouble?

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Hard work never killed anybody but why should employees even take risk by working hard? With smartphones in their hands how can an employee even concentrate or focus on work when every second he is distracted by constant notifications on his smartphone. So, when your business is not performing well, it’s not an employee’s fault. It is undeniably the smart phone magic that has taken over everyone by its spell. So, rather than doing something about an employee, it’s better to do something about their misuse of smartphones.

How do smartphones help employees in ruining your business?

Smartphones have a lot of wicked ways to keep the user trapped. One of them is the option of downloading unlimited free apps. So, it always keeps the user busy with playing games or socializing online. Hence the work stays highly ignored. Moreover the employees who are addicted to their smartphones introduce everyone to this whole new world. Smartphones are the biggest threat to your business because of following reasons:

  • Sexual harassment at work place
  • Leakage of confidential information to competitors
  • Slacking Off at Work
  • Wasting time playing games
  • Excessive Social Media Usage

StealthGenie, Just What You Wanted

Mobile tracking apps are a great way of dealing with uncooperative employees who keep fooling you in the worst possible ways. The reason why experts recommend StealthGenie is because it saves you from the embarrassment of being caught by your employer while spying on him. So, it ensures anonymity thus it is the most widely used mobile spying software. So instead of sitting and waiting for them to stop misusing their smartphones and start working just use StealthGenie and take control of the situation.

How to tackle disruptive employees without any trouble?

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Hard work never killed anybody but why should employees even take risk by working hard? With smartphones in their hands how can an employee even concentrate or focus on work when every second he is distracted by constant notifications on his smartphone. So, when your business is not performing well, it’s not an employee’s fault. It is undeniably the smart phone magic that has taken over everyone by its spell. So, rather than doing something about an employee, it’s better to do something about their misuse of smartphones.

How do smartphones help employees in ruining your business?

Smartphones have a lot of wicked ways to keep the user trapped. One of them is the option of downloading unlimited free apps. So, it always keeps the user busy with playing games or socializing online. Hence the work stays highly ignored. Moreover employees who are addicted to their smartphones introduce everyone to this whole new world. Smartphones are a biggest threat to your business because of following reasons:

  • Sexual harassment at work place
  • Leakage of confidential information to competitors

StealthGenie, Just What You Wanted

Mobile tracking apps are a great way of dealing with uncooperative employees who keep fooling you in the worst possible ways. The reason why experts recommend StealthGenie is because it saves you from the embarrassment of being caught by your employer while spying on him. So, it ensures anonymity thus it is the most widely used mobile spying software. So instead of sitting and waiting for them to stop misusing their smartphones and start working just use StealthGenie and take control of the situation.

 

Office Gossip – You Need To Know Where To Stop Your Employees

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It is always very mesmerizing to hear naughty stories about our co-workers and life seems incomplete without donating to the malicious gossip going on around you in your office. No one ever seems to care about authenticity of the news unless and until it is boring and unexciting. Clearly it is not very easy to chat face to face when you are at work so smartphones are nothing less than a blessing in such a scenario. They provide various platforms of gossiping with the security of being unheard.  Moreover you can also have group chats to acknowledge everyone’s feedback.

Why They Won’t Stop?

Why would people stop gossiping if it is so much fun to construe stories about someone by twisting a few facts and then easily adding a little spice and finally getting anyone’s image tarnished without much effort? This can even cost someone to lose their job and a company might lose a sincere and competent employee due to false accusations. They don’t care about how much time is actually being wasted or how many people are getting hurt by it. All they care about is making the best out of free messaging apps and boring office routine. They might take this gossip a little ahead and end up leaking company’s confidential information to the competitors.

How can you stop?

In order to know the real side of the picture, and handling such chaos at work place, best way to go about it is install StealthGenie, a mobile tracker app on their smartphones and know exactly what is being construed by knowing everything you need to know and stopping the gossip before it makes the office environment more like a gossip place. After all, it’s your precious resources that are being wasted so you deserve the right to spy them and keep them your employees on track.

3 Things employees can’t resist doing at work

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It is not always an emergency at home that feasibly distracts your employees at work. Employees have thousands of reasons to stay distracted at work even if they are loaded with assignments and serious projects. They will never fail to devise cunning ways to carry out their top-secret activities at work place without giving you the slightest hint of it. In such a case, it is always your money and resources that are being compromised and your employees definitely have nothing to do with that. Here are three activities that your employee is definitely carrying on making the best out of office time.

Online Banking

Employees will definitely not wait for lunch break to pay their bills or do a little bit of shopping online. The easiest way is to use a smartphone if your office has video cameras for surveillance and you fear that your boss might catch you by spying your monitor screen so there is no harm in conveniently getting done with paying all your home bills online.

Endless Gossip Sessions

Smartphones provide the best platform of endless chatting with colleagues from complaining about work to deciding weekend plans. And the best way is to use Viber or WhatsApp as these apps are free and they can conveniently use them for gossiping without being heard.

Social Networking

Employees definitely log in to Facebook to just check their notifications but then they  get carried away with some new post by their friends and then one thing leads to another and they simply forget within a few minutes that they are sitting in office and they get trapped in the vicious circle of these social networking apps.

Time To Stop Them

All these ideas of wasting time at work place seem lovely but only if you are not an employer who has invested capital into a business for the sole purpose of earning profit and definitely not a bad name. So why not use a mobile phone spy app like StealthGenie and stay updated about all their activities. This definitely doesn’t mean office won’t be fun for your employees anymore. You can always come up with ways of making them feel that fun is a part of work and not the other way round.

 

Beating Procrastination at Work Place

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Employees these days come up with the smartest excuses for not being able to submit their work in due time. They are not only able to gain sympathy by making up stories like how their cat died or they had to visit a close friend at hospital but will also get away with not submitting the project in time. How on God’s green earth can an employer actually be that stonehearted to penalize an employee who is apparently caught in such a troubled situation.

Why Do Employers Procrastinate?

While excuses are always different and better than the preceding ones but the reason might be one and only and that is their smartphone. Employees can spend hours on their smartphones and then don’t even regret it as they can always make a creative excuse and get away with not submitting the assignments on time. They can endlessly use their smartphones for online shopping and social networking and if they still get spare time they can waste it on numerous Instant Messaging apps and free games.

How To Stop This Madness?

In order to make sure that your employees don’t waste time and concentrate on their work and stop making excuses, you can definitely not tell them to stop bringing their devices to work but you can definitely use StealthGenie, a mobile tracking app that finally puts a stop to their lies. Because when you have concrete evidences against them, you can easily go ahead and take a stern action and not get manipulated by their excuses anymore.

My New Year resolution –“I will safeguard my family and loved ones”

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Every New Year we devotedly and consistently make new resolutions but they mostly don’t last more than a month. We definitely end up blaming ourselves for being too lazy or lacking will power to change ourselves. Whatever might be the real or underlying cause, but mostly people end up blaming themselves for not being able to stick to their resolution. Last year I also made a New Year resolution of joining gym and being regular at it but ended up eating more calories than I burnt. So, it never worked for me in most cases.

A New Year Resolution That You Will Certainly Stick To

But then there are resolutions that are even more serious and long term than not ever getting back to your psycho ex or changing your boring job; the resolution to ensure protection of your family and loved ones. It is definitely not enough to just make sure they stay safe at home and in school. As internet is also an integral part of our lives and your child grows up with these gadgets, it is crucial that your child stays away from all sorts of online dangers like Cyber Bullying, Cyber Stalking, Hacking and other online risks.

There Is Always A Way To Begin New Year And Then There Is StealthGenie Way

An incredible surprise from StealthGenie for the upcoming year is that it is now compatible with iOS 7.0, the compatibility is announced right after the arrival of jailbreak. So, feel free to gift your loved ones an iPhone this new year, jailbreak it and install StealthGenie and you are all set and ready to go ahead with your New Year Resolution. If there is anything left from our side, than its definitely wishing you good luck and yes A very happy New Year.


Monitor Not Just The Person But His Smartphone… The World Has Many Escape Routes!

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The best thing one can have in life is a smartphone. Not that it is a luxury, but because it has far more important things to do. It comes in handy as a resource if one has to come up with stuff readily available. Easiest escape routes are made if one can have a device like a modern day smartphone or a tablet.

Employee Texting Problem

Beyond just a phone it is a whole new world open to juvenile crimes, bunks, bugging, gambling and above all cheating. Children and employees are the biggest chunk of this pie. Let that not happen is a question not answered well. However, solutions to problem do exist and best of the things come in name of monitoring applications.

Employees can do wonders, but a few can create disasters

All of it depends on the person. One can be a part of the crowd or can be the one that monitors all the activities of the employees. If you have been troubled by the employers before, I suggest go for the latter. Being a part of the crowd is easy, but being a part of those who play smart isn’t tough either.

Learn to stay a step ahead or be a witness to a company ending up in disaster.

Children are young, but parents should act mature

child monitoring
Being themselves the part of teenage few decades back, parents should always jump ahead and act smart. One can so smoothly keep a check on all the activities, yet one fails to do so… The problem does not lie with children much as compared to parents. Children will do things forbidden since it is the age of curiosity. It is the mindset of you people to step ahead and change it all.

Now it depends on how you take these things…

 

Wicked Games: Deal With Cheating Employees Face-on or At least Monitor Smart, Maybe?

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You hired an employee; he works smooth, and makes you believe you did not make a bad choice by choosing him over plenty of other candidates. Well of course, maybe that’s what he wants you to believe in, but he is wicked from the inside, and plans on causing an intrusion in security sooner than you think. How will you get to know about that?

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy

BYOD is the most latest and emerging trends these days which allows the employee to carry around his private property such as Smartphone, PDAs or tablet whatsoever to workplaces. This policy blew out just so rapidly that the employers were at a loss to completely implement the security parameters to save their business and company restricted information.

How Much Influence BYOD Having Over People?

According to Gartner, a leading American Information Technology Research Centre recently concluded that by the end of 2014, the bring-your-own-device fashion will invade almost 90% of the workplaces.

Cisco reported: Almost 90% of American employees use BYOD devices and gadgets! How helpful that can be? There is no way you can ensure they are not passing on the company’s restricted information over to people they are not supposed to share with.

BYOD: Bring-Your-Own-Device or Demon?

Employees never want to sacrifice the perks that come with office-owned-devices that include unlimited wireless coverage as well. Before it’s late and the employee slips right from under your nose, with all the confidential information he/she wants to have, there a few measures you must do to put an end to this forever!

Install Surveillance Cameras at Workplaces

You can monitor if any of your employees are involved in suspicious activities by monitoring them through cameras. Though these cams aren’t enough in judging but still it helps… to an extent!

Install Spy software and Firewalls in their PCs

Install proxy settings of frequently used URLs which you think are not of help inside workplace. In this way you can avoid misuse of your resources and make sure employee spends his/her time on work instead on other unimportant websites and stuff.

Exercise Your Right to Wipe-Out Phone Data When and If Need Be

Mention in the employer user agreement that the company reserves the right to wipe-out phone data if employee is found guilty or if the employee is terminated from the organization.

Get a suitable Mobile Tracker Software Installed in The Employee’s Phone/tablet

That’s probably one of the best solutions so far! Before misfortune strikes, get a cell phone monitoring software readily installed in your employee’s smartphone or even tablets. You can always keep a check if your company’s confidential information, documents, worksheet or anything is shared over your Intranet.

Extra Tips & Tricks

All the more, you can limit their access to specific data or apps and be on the safe side. Moreover, there is always your company’s IT department to keep a watch on the data traffic over the wireless network and point out the moles in your organization.

If planned accordingly these important pointers might outweigh much of the terror associated with monitoring employees. Hope you find luck with that!

5 things bosses wish their employees don’t do!

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More often than not, boss is one person who enjoys least support at a workplace. No matter how justified his/her demands are; employees will find an excuse or two to whine how unrealistic the demands are. That’s how it is; ‘the boss is always right’ but seldom liked. But how many of us actually put ourselves in our boss’s shoes and realized how hard the life of a boss can really be?

Men are from Mars, Women from Venus… and Bosses from Hell?

Running a business is no child’s play but some bosses can be pretty much a nightmare. If you, too, call your employees at 3 in the morning to share a business idea; chances are that your employees won’t appreciate that.

Become Career created this brilliant infographic that is so bad, it’s good!

Employees can be pretty irritating, too!

Being a boss is surely one tough job. Not only do you have to work day and night, strike profitable deals and bear all the pressure, you also have to deal with crazy employees! So yes, bosses do need nerves of steel to bear all the pressure and monitoring employees without losing mental balance!

Things that bosses hate about employees

1.     Too many sick leaves!

What really annoys bosses is when employees will conveniently call in sick. And according to a study, more than 50% of Canadians who were surveyed admitted they called in sick when they really weren’t.  This can very well lead to employee’s termination, too!

2.     ‘It’s not my fault!’

That’s another thing that puts off most employers! You ask them to get the blue prints ready by the week and they will blame other employees for the delay. And how you hate to see to a presentation done all wrong even if you explained it a trillion times! Only of you could install some chip into their minds!

3.     Extreme irritating employee habits

Only if coping up with their sick leaves and constant blame-shifting tactics weren’t enough driving you crazy, you need to put up with all kinds of bizarre employee habits a swell! Neo mammalian Studios have complied some of the most annoying habits of employees:

4.     Making awkward excuses

What is an employer supposed to say when an employee embarrassing or awkward excuses for not doing work on time? It can be certainly embarrassing for employers to listen to very personal details and excuses for being late. A free advice to all employees: your boss has nothing to do with a very dramatic breakup or your love life!

5.     Monkey business at office

No matter how annoying employees can get, there is no parallel to the cheating employees. Bosses can forgive tardiness, fake sick leaves but so employer on earth will forgive employee for spilling company secrets!

 A precautionary measure

It’s 21st century and bosses can safely leave it to technology t handle all employee management woes! Installing a mobile tracking app will not only let you track your employees’ real location but will also let you remotely track their e-mails, SMS, call details and multimedia files. So this way, you can surely know if your employee is really sick or at some rock party! Above all, it makes it easy for bosses to know who’s spilling beans who’s trying to shift the blame!

Employee engagement: the secret ingredient for a successful organization

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Employee engagement

You’ve got a nice, big building a sizable staff and you’re confident that you have what it takes to be a successful businessman. Recent studies have proved that all this, though extremely important, is not what makes an organization a success. If not for these factors, what is that secret ingredient? Employee engagement is what matters and even more important is to get the term right!

What is employee engagement, anyway?

What is employee engagement?

Employee engagement, as some unperturbed bosses might interpret, is employee satisfaction and may have to do with salary, compensations and the sort. Wrong. Employee engagement is not even close. It’s dynamic and comprehensive. Before we drill down the matter any further, take a look at this infographic:

So shockingly enough, the shocking facts are:

  • 70% of US workers are not engaged at work
  • 75% of people quit not the jobs but the bosses
  • Only 40% of the employees knew about company goals
  • Highly engaged employees are 87% less likely to quit their job than the disengaged ones.

Merely talking about employee engagement isn’t enough

Ok, let’s face it: employee engagement isn’t some fancy term but it’s something that executives definitely need to pay more attention to. May be it sounds ‘90ish or redundant to many employers, but employee engagement is about the emotional connection and commitment an employee has with the organization.

Employee engagement level:

Experts put employees into four categories, Cerdian explains:

employee engagement levels

What’s an engaged employee like?

An engaged employee:

  • Is proud to be associated with the company
  • Works not for a paycheck but for the organizational growth
  • Is aligned with the company goals and has an active role in shaping and attaining them

Here’s an anatomy of an engaged employee:

So deal with the real problems of the employees and just don’t concentrate how fancy your workplace looks. A great-looking place is a motivator but entertaining their view point is more important!

Trust me, employees don’t work for money only!

Ask an exec what makes an employee work harder and s/he might reply, “Give out fat paycheck; get more productivity”. This notion is fast becoming a myth because as this section of an infographic by Philips Work Life Survey suggest, 68% of the US workers would take a salary cut to work in an organization where they could put their personal interest in work.

How to boost employee engagement?

Optimally, employers need to give their employers the sense of association with the organization. Communication with employees and listening to their view point can greatly increase the emotional and functional engagement with the company.

1. Meaningful rewards system

There is a relatively new concept, gamification that can also contribute a lot in enhancing the engagement level in employees. Dilbert gives lesson on meaningful rewards:

gamification explained

2. Effective employee monitoring techniques:

employee monitoring

If unhappy employees can cost much, tardy and cheating employees cost much more. No matter how much you should concentrate on their engagement level, do not take employee monitoring for granted. If you can remotely keep a check on all their official correspondences and whereabouts during office hours, you can bring down the information leakage significantly down and can also know for a fact if employees are at the right place, at the right time, doing the right thing!

6 Easy Steps for Successful Employee Management

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Managing employees is no walk in the park. Try as you might to make reasonable requests, you will always end up the bad guy. It’s not completely your fault either; humans are just wired to dislike authority from the get-go. But while you can’t change your employee’s psyche completely, there are a few easy steps you can use to maneuver their mind in your favor.

Step 1: Know your employee

Your employees are not cattle that uniformly respond to your beck and call. They are people, and each is different to the other. Try getting to know everyone a little bit to see what motives them. Here is a helpful cheat sheet you can use:

And so, a few useful tips to keep your employee happy are:

  • Ensure they have a work-life balance
  • Recognize their work often
  • Let them listen to music at work (as long as they use headphones, of course!)
  • Allow a 10 minute break to lift monotony

Step 2: Know what turns them off work

Now that you have gotten to know everyone a little bit and have an idea of what drives them, you should probably find out what ticks them off. Frustrated workers will never be productive. Habnet has a nice chart to help you with this problem.

Here’s the gist to help you keep up:

What turns off employees from work is

  • Absence of easy communication
  • Micromanagement
  • Lack of recognition
  • Too much work

If you have figured out how to remedy these problems, you are good to go to the next step.

Step 3: Don’t be stingy with compliments

Your employees want to know that you cherish them. If you let them remain only a face in the crowd, you’ll find it reflected in their performance as well. You don’t have to go overboard either. Again, it helps if you remember that they are people, and people like to be appreciated for the work they put in. A simple, but sincere expression of a job well done should do the trick. Check out another info graphic by Habnet for more ideas.

Employee appreciation is much easier than you think—a simple thank you note will work wonders. A little morale boost is all you need to provide to keep 68% of your employees from leaving.

Alexander Stajkovic suggests that you refrain from generic compliments and spend some time coming up with more meaningful ones. Instead of saying “good job”, say something like “I know you had to work overtime to finish these reports. I could not have completed this project by morning without you.”

Now that you have mastered the art of compliments, let’s move on to the next step.

Step 4: Engage your employees

Simply put, an engaged employee loves their work. And when they feel like their potential is being substantially used, they work to make the entire company better. Why would anyone work beyond their personal goals, you ask? Well studies have proven that organization that practice employee engagement perform better than those who don’t by 200%. And that sure is an unbelievable number, isn’t it? Unbelievable but true.

So you know your employees, you know what ticks them off, you’ve been giving them compliments and they are well engaged. What’s next?

Step 5: Know when to slow down

Frustrated and overworked workers will never perform as well as you would like. Look out for sign of stress, then learn to take a step back. If you are not too good with reading faces, let 42X guide you with this chart:

Anger and irritability from one employee will ruin the atmosphere of the entire workplace and make your job way tougher!

Step 6: Don’t be a slacker, either

You are the manager after all, and it is your job to make sure they get the work done. To avoid being labeled as the overbearing boss but get your job done anyway, get hold of some nifty employee tracking devicesCell phone trackers can be very useful, too. This way, you don’t have to breath down their necks all the time but still know if someone is taking too long a break or trying to give away company information.

The Authority Figure’s Guide to Managing the Smartphone Generation – Part-I

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Say you’ve gone out to grab a bite to eat to your nearest café. You get your cup of coffee; you order your favorite sandwich. You wait. You look around. You see a crowd of people, head bowed toward the table because they are tapping away on their phones. And the funniest bit? They’re probably on their separate phones while they are sitting at the same table together. Not talking. Just tapping away. This, my friend, is the age of communication. This is the smartphone generation – where there is less talking and more… er, communicating.

Don’t get me wrong here; I have done my fair share of tapping. I use my smart phone just as much as the next person.

But it is still fascinating to know how they are slowly changing the way we interact. C-Section has used this observation to make a prediction:

It’s not a Smartphone, it’s a lifestyle

A smartphone is a minicomputer basically. And with so many apps, it is probably chirpy all the time.

You know the feeling. You simply have to check anytime your phone buzzes.

You never, ever leave the house without it.

You get a panic attack anytime you think you have lost it.

So, one this we have established so far—people love their smartphones. They are the adult version of security blankets. So who exactly is using them the most?

The 2 Smartphone User Categories

So who exactly do you think has been affected the most by this change in dynamic? While “everybody” seems like the acceptable answer, let’s boil it down to two categories:

  • People under the age of 25. This includes children living with their parents as well as college students
  • Employees, particularly those working in an office environment

Still not convinced? Give this inforgraphic by Go-Globe a look, then.

Let’s talk employees first

Well it’s true. Workers throughout time have found ways to waste time in the office in one way or the other. Some would resort to taking very long breaks. Others probably daydream till you snapped them out of it. In many ways, the old school offices were pretty much the same.

What’s so different about employees now, anyway?

But now we have smartphones, employees could be looking busy doing nothing and you would never know. When they have social media, apps and games only a tap of their finger away, they have 101 new ways to procrastinate. So what exactly are they doing on their phones you ask? Citrix has some answers.

If your workplace has a BYOD policy , you’re in a lot more trouble as a manager. Forbes claims that over 100 hours worth of video are uploaded onto YouTube by the minute, and employees keep track. At work, no less.

Smartphone usage at work allows for more job satisfaction you say?

Sprout Social reports that checking their Facebook and Twitter logs are always on an employee’s mind. It may sound funny, but many people won’t accept a job offer if they have a no-phone or social media policy.

What is more is that while the smartphone remains the most popular mobile device, chances are those aren’t the only things your employees are carrying with them. Let Sophos give you some insight.

What needs to be done then?

All you need to do is get in with the times. You know those thumbs will get dwindling anytime you’re away. And micromanagement isn’t fun for either party. You need to understand that social media and smartphones are the thing of today. You need to monitor their smartphones too.

Roythrones has a useful guide for you to follow.

While banning them altogether might become counterproductive, there are many ways you can manage their use.

  • Monitor their online presence to know how frequently they use social media for personal use
  • Limit the amount of downloadable data for personal use
  • Use employee monitoring software to keep track of their productivity.

Let’s wrap it up here for today. In the next part, we will discuss how you can deal with your teens addicted to their smartphones. Stay tuned!

5 Things Employees Do to Waste Time at Work When You’re Away

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Productivity at work?

It’s nice, isn’t it when you look up from your desk and find your employees engrossed in work? How sweet they look working away, just like you told them to, how amazing your management skills are. You might as well get up and get yourself a congratulatory cup of coffee. They’ll keep working just as they are even when you’re gone. Or will they?

Do you even know what your employees get up to when you’re away? Forget about when you’re away, they even find ways to procrastinate at work with you there. Want to find out how? Read on, then.

1.  Water Cooler Convos

 

Talking to other employees is the number one culprit here. And we’re not talking your average by-the-by conversation. We’re talking the proper kind where your employees catch up on each other’s life histories over a cup of water.

2. Office Chair Rides!

It may sound utterly ridiculous, but employees wanting to kill time will do anything that is not work, and office chair rides just happen to be among the most common methods of doing so.

By rides, we really did mean swinging back and forth on their chairs. So when you return from your congratulatory cup of coffee, here’s what you’ll find:

Expectations:

Reality:

3. Checking Social Media

The truth of the matter is no one these days can survive all of 10 minutes without checking their Facebook or Twitter. And once you’re one it, social media is a rabbit hole that keeps plunging you deeper till you’ve lost all track of time.

So what makes you think they won’t be Facebook-ing at work?

Atlassian has the stats.

 

So, according to them, what starts time wastage is:

  • Emails
  • Meetings
  • Interruptions

4. Applying to Other Jobs

This, my friend, is dangerous territory. Did you know that 3 out of 10 workers have admitted to applying to other places while at work?

 Your workers could be applying to other places under your nose

They could be:

  • Updating their resumes
  • Browsing online for job openings
  • Filling out applications under your nose

It sounds unethical, but it happens, and it is in fact one of the biggest reasons why they’re not getting their job done on time.

5. Simply Spacing Out

While childishly riding office chair or checking out their personal accounts too often can still be controlled using employee monitoring software, there is simply no way for you to know when an employee just zones out.

 

How do you spot a zoned out employee?

The worst part? They’re probably spacing out while you’re there.  APS warns that they might look like they’re thinking about what to write in the report, when really they’re daydreaming about what they’ll be having for lunch.

What You Need to Do…

The easiest solution off the top of your head would be to ban personal internet usage, ban water cooler convos and ban anything else that they like, just ban everything! Unfortunately, that is going to hurt your cause. People don’t want to be part of a company that doesn’t give them any breathing room.

So what you need to do is practice employee engagementIf your workers find their work interesting enough, they won’t be looking elsewhere.  Read the infographic by SilkRoad for better insight:

If you’re employees are having fun with their work, they wouldn’t be wasting time anyway. But it doesn’t hurt to keep an eye on them either, just to make sure they’re not getting into anything unethical. 

 

 


7 Employee Personality Types Found in Your Office

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Different personality types

You know what the most difficult thing about management is? There is just no simplified or uniformed way of dealing with everyone at once. Your office probably consists of a billion personalities, but while there is no possible way for you to prepare for all billion, let’s broadly categorize them into 7 types, shall we?

So in your office, you probably have one or more of the following kinds of people.

The Natural Leader

Some employees rise to the occasion

Some of your employees to you will be a breath of fresh air. Not only will they execute everything you throw at them brilliantly, they might even exceed your expectations. These kinds of employees are natural born leaders and will lift your entire team up. If you want to spot who that is in your office, take a look at this:

You might want to keep people like these around. If someone is slacking one day, they’ll take on responsibility and make sure the work gets done the right way. They are leaders, so they have a great sense of team.

The New Recruit

Ah, the fresh meat. They’ll probably bring in a lot of talent, but like Bambi, it’ll be a while before they can start walking.

New recruits take a while to learn

Let them get a feel of things before you throw full responsibility onto them. A lot of new recruits are eager to learn and want to prove themselves in the new place, but don’t get too overexcited by their willingness to work. Again, it wouldn’t help if they’re running before they can walk.

The Team Player

Every office needs one. When work is stressful and it seems like meeting that one deadline is impossible, this guy will be the morale booster. They keep the team intact. Here’s how to spot the cheerleader in your office.

Team players tend to be people persons. What you need to do is make sure their motivational skills are being used in the right way. You don’t want them to be steering your workforce somewhere you don’t want them to be.

The Free Rider

Free riders let others do the work

Free riders are the absolute worst. You would know who the free rider at your place is if

  • They rarely show up
  • They spend most of their time spaced out
  • They’re away from their desks a lot
  • People are not too fond of them (you wouldn’t be either if you had to do all their work)
  • They pretend like they don’t know nothing about anything so it’s better if you do their task

If you have a free rider at your office, better weed them out. If you can’t do that, keep an eye on them. Use employee monitoring software to see if they are just using the internet to watch movies or if they are indeed working.

The Panic-Stricken One

These are the emotional kinds that are always in a worry about something. While the team player would present the optimistic side of things, this guy will be terribly pessimistic. If you have someone like this in your workplace, this is how you should deal with them…

The Entrepreneur suggests it helps if you talk to them and simplify things. They often get in over their own heads and that’s where the panic begins. You’ll need to be the calm one in this case.

The Wild Card

The talent vs. reliability diagram

The Wild Card is a tough one. These happen to be some of the most talented people in your team. They have the most radical ideas, which when you hear them, seem too good to be true. And sadly, they often are. Because talented as they are, these people are very unreliable.

They might not follow up their ideas, won’t be willing to work hard half the time, or they might not even show up. There is just no overlap between a valued member and a wild card.

You’ll need to play this one smartly. Weigh how much they are adding to the firm vs. how much they are taking away.

The Debbie Downer

Debbie Downers are not fun to hang around either. If you think the panic-stricken one was pessimistic, you might want to stay well away from this one. The worst part is that they’ll wait when everyone is feeling good about themselves before jumping in and ruining the moment.

They could be good workers, but if they’re bringing everyone else down, FindLaw thinks you may want to reconsider.

Spot what personalities you have in your office and evaluate if they are worth keeping for better human resource management. You’re losing a lot by hiring the wrong person:

 

5 Ways to Know You’re an Overbearing Boss

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Are you an overbearing boss?

Work could overwhelm you

Employees may come up short

3 times you told them to get done

But again they forgot

 

So you’ve resort to shouting,

But are you sure that’s the best?

Let’s try something new,

Put the old employee management methods to rest.

 

Think we’re telling lies,

Think your management is slick?

If you still don’t believe us, then

Take a look at this infographic:

Have you been short tempered?

Put your workers on a cross?

If you’ve been breathing down their necks, here are

5 ways to know you’re an overbearing boss.

1.                 Raising Your Voice

Shouting isn’t the right way

Don’t be hasty now

And take a deep breath

Your employees are learning, too

In case you forget

 

There are other ways

So don’t be a hot head

Pull yourself together,

Be a Jedi instead

Try and be patient

You too were in their place

Employee training is tough, we know

But you must give them their space

 

Be cool as a cucumber

You don’t have to shout

Try talking in private, asking their problems

Getting to know them will sort it out

 

2.                 Micromanagement

Put trust in your workers

They can have a lot to give

Let them be creative

Micromanagement is counterproductive.

Give them some autonomy

And you’ll be in for a surprise

They’ll bring in new ideas

To get your company on the rise.

 

Use your internal pool of talent

And bring out their best

They’ll stop fooling around

Give you more than you request.

 

3.                 Lack of Communication

You may tell them what to do

But this conversation is one way

Have you even stopped to hear

What they have to say?

 

You think you know it all,

Your business strategy is just fine?

You don’t like it when someone below you

Points out a flaw from time to time

 

Take their opinions in

Employees can give a fresh perspective

When your methods are old and tired

Their advice can be effective.

 

4.                 Pin Drop Silence

Do you pride in the fact that

No one speaks when you’re around?

Employees still in their seats,

Not a soul makes a sound.

 

I’m afraid that’s not respect, sir

No, they don’t praise your name.

They probably fear for their jobs,

Or their lives just the same.

Boss or monster?

A little friendly conversation,

Won’t hurt every now and then.

We’re not saying you need to go overboard,

Just try and be nice, my friend.

5.                 Good Outcomes Are Yours, Bad Outcomes Are Theirs

There is nothing more annoying

Than to have given it your all,

And not be acknowledged because

Your boss seems to overhaul.

But make one mistake, I dare you

And wait for what’s to come.

Your boss will have your throat

His own melody he strums.

 

Don’t be that boss we speak of

Employee appreciation is the right way.

Give credit where credit is due

And they’ll be happy, come what may.

 

Don’t Be That Boss Everyone Hates

So now you know what it takes,

To be the overbearing head.

Take a step back and you’ll realize

That great things lie ahead.

 

Instead of breathing down their necks,

Try a sneakier way…

Employee monitoring software

Will make your job child’s play!

How to Spy on Android Phone in 5 Minutes

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Lately we’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding the SG installer. Some of you have been asking me why the app won’t download on their target phone even after you’ve followed the installation guide. If you’re a regular on this blog, you probably know the drill. But recently we’ve had an onslaught of new subscribers and that’s great! Then I thought instead of talking about just the installer problem, I might as well give you the whole step by step guide. So old users, if you had questions, read ahead and new users welcome aboard!

A lot of our new users are either parents or employers. I want you to know that your decision to start spying is completely justifiable. Because maybe you have a daughter who has been spending way too much time on the phone late at night. Naturally, you would want to know who she talks to because, worst case scenario, that person could be a predator. Or maybe you have a teenage son who sneaks out any time you look away, and you really want to know where he goes off to and who he is meeting without telling you. Similarly, if you’re a manager dealing with employees who have been provided with company phones, it is your duty to find out if they’re being correctly used. You are the authority figure and you’re responsible for your kids or your employees.

So one thing is clear—you definitely want to monitor them closely. The question is… how?
Take a look at this infographic to get an idea:

So, according to what you just read, the answer quite simply lies in an Android Spy App. StealthGenie will help you keep track of your kid or employees’ smartphones usage. You can know who they call, who they text; you can even keep an eye on their Facebook activity. Once you’ve been through this step by step guide, you’ll be ready to spy in just about 5 minutes. Let’s start the clock.

How to Install StealthGenie on Your Android Phone

Before we begin, it will be better if you take a look at this video first, just so you have a clear picture of what you are about to do.

Note that this guide is for Android users only.

Now that you know what set of instructions you are in for, let’s break them down.

Step 1

Before you even begin your installation, go to your phones settings. Under “Security”, make sure “Unknown sources” is checked. This is the step that a lot of you have been missing out so confirm if you have the option checked.

Step 2

Go to the web browser on your phone and enter “cproid.net” without quotations on the address bar. This will download the installer.

Step 3

Once the installer has been downloaded, click to open.

Step 4

A prompt would appear asking you to either “cancel” or “install”. Click “Install”.

Step 5

Once the installation is complete, click “Open”.

Step 6

Click “install” once more and wait for the download to begin.

Let the download complete.

Step 7

The following window will appear.

Click Install.

Step 8

Once the installation is complete, click done.

All of this should have taken you about one minute.

Step 9

The following screen will now appear

Enter the activation code that was sent to you by StealthGenie through email. Click Activate.

Step 10

A prompt will appear asking if you wish to activate device administration. Click Activate.

Step 11

A message should appear at the bottom of the activation window confirming “Service activated successfully”. Now click close.

This should have taken you around another minute. You’ve got three minutes until you start spying!

Step 12

You will now be asked to uninstall the installer. This will not uninstall StealthGenie, but only the installer. So go ahead and click OK.

Once the uninstallation is done, click OK once more.

Step 13

Sign into your SG account by going to ‘my genie’.

This will take another 30 seconds. You’re halfway there!

How to Use StealthGenie

Once you are signed in, it’ll take another minute for your target phone’s new data to be uploaded in real time. Now a lot of you have been complaining that your data does not get uploaded. We’ve reviewed the issue and found no problems in your software. You just need to be patient! Sometimes your targeted user is simply not getting the calls you want to spy on. What you can do is activate alerts on suspicious phone numbers so you know when you need to start spying.
Once the data is uploaded you can access the Dashboard. This is what it looks like:

On the left hand side, you have the “My Services” tab which enables you to see all your purchased services. Below that are all the tabs that let you view different aspects of your target phone independently. You can:

  • View their call logs
  • Record ongoing calls
  • View their SMS logs
  • Record Surroundings
  • View their email
  • View their phonebook
  • View appointments
  • View their multimedia files
  • View their browsing history
  • Track their GPS location
  • View their BBM chats

If you want a quick recap of all the features we have, take a look at this video.

The dashboard is very user friendly, so it won’t take you more than a minute to get yourself acquainted. To view what each tab looks like on the dashboard in more detail, click on the How StealthGenie Works page.

In the next 30 seconds, decide which feature you want to use first. And there you go. Your 5 minute guide is complete, and you are ready to start spying!

So What Exactly Are You Spying On?

Now that you know how to spy, list down what you need to be spying on. Earlier we talked about what situations parents might find themselves with their kids which would prompt them into using android monitoring. Parents who have used SG have admitted to being able to breathe better. Listen to this dad’s advice:

If you’re an employer and new to this product, don’t worry! You’re not the only one doing it and a lot of companies have benefited greatly from this practice. NCH has the stats:

Just make sure you’re keeping an eye on the right stuff!

So there you go new users and old users. This has been your SG installation Bible. I hope it has answered all the questions you’ve been sending me regarding the installation process. If you have any other queries or concerns, leave a comment below and I’ll sort them out for you.

iPhone users, I’ll be addressing your problems regarding the installation process soon!

How Cell Phone Monitoring Puts an End to Cyber-Slacking?

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A lot of our users are tech savvy business owners who think that technology has multiplied the chances of progress. But do you really think the phones provided by you are being used in the right way?  Well, think again!!

Though digital inventions such as smartphones have provided numerous effective and instant communication ways, employees also have easy access to different entertainment and social web resources instantly. Cyber-Slacking is heavily impacting upon the efficiency of business organizations negatively. That is why, many StealthGenie customers from the business sector often inquire how to get the maximum out of their employees.

Before heading to the one-stop solution for cyber-slacking, let’s examine the business loss that employers are facing due to cyber-slacking in the current arena.

Time Wasted Online Is The Most Threatening Factor For Organizational Growth Today

Cyber-Slacking Tricks of Employees

The confidence hoax and “Look busy, do nothing” are the two important tricks, which employees regularly use at workplace to fool their employers.

A self-confident employee can easily dodge employers as he or she can easily pretend to be working on official tasks on their smartphones. Obviously, the organization will have to bear a hefty cost because of such cyber slackers.

For this purpose, employers can look at their bookmarked websites to limit their unnecessary activities.

Exploiting the Hassle-Free Workplace Environment

Sometimes, employees exploit the work friendly environment and carry out their personal tasks during office hours. So, all employers reading this; beware! If you’re not properly monitoring your employees then you’re in for a huge financial loss.

To overcome the personal browsing effect upon the organization, you can view all emails and other browsing activities of your employees.

Track Down Each And Every Email Of Employees

Employees can also use office web resources for online shopping, freelancing and other personal purposes. Employees often use proxy websites to access such web resources so their activity becomes undetectable unless you use cell phone monitoring.

One Stop Solution

The one-stop solution of cyber-slacking is to limit the internet activities of employees. First of all, we need to know why we need to monitor the internet activities of employees and how we can increase the organizational productivity.

Social Apps Are Huge Distractions For Employees At Work

Your employees should not be wasting time at workplace at all. Locking their phones can also be one of the best options to make them work effectively. The below picture clearly demonstrates the organization doing nothing for employee monitoring and hence will be facing huge losses in long term.

Dangers Of Not Monitoring Your Employees

In order to prevent cyber-slacking during office hours, you should be examining the browsing history of your employees regularly through StealthGenie.

Viewing Their Visited Websites Is Essential

Limit Social App Activities of Employees

A large proportion of employees use social apps such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype etc. during office hours for personal purposes. Therefore, you should always be looking at their bookmarked websites to assess their browsing activities and you certainly need to stop the social app usage such as Facebook or iMessage conversations at the workplace through virtual monitoring.

If you don’t want to ignite the flames of uncertainly at your organization, you’ll have to end the vice of cyber-slacking and a phone monitoring app would definitely be a great resource for you in this regard! What you feel about the effectiveness of StealthGenie features? Does it give you a hard time to monitor your employees? Do give us your feedback!

Why Building an Online Reputation Matters

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Job search sure is changing, isn’t it?

This is the Facebook and LinkedIn age. Before you’ve even sat down across the desk for an interview, the interviewer would know a good deal about you already. How? Well, they looked you up on the internet. This means that your entire career could depend on your online reputation.

So, ever thought about strategically building an online reputation?

Online Reputation Begins in the Womb

You read that right. Parents these days are quite tech savvy. So when they’re deciding on baby names, they do a quick run on Google to see if someone with, say a criminal record, has the same name.

And that’s a smart thing to do. Samuel M. Jackson of Chicago has it hard because as if the Hollywood references weren’t enough, he has a common name with a criminal.

Samuel Jackson the Felon (left) and the Man Who Shares His Name (right)

And because of that, he is always denied employment.

Your Online Persona

Employers will Google you to see what kind of online presence you have. If you’ve been careless about your digital personality so far, now might be the time to start brushing up. Use this infographic to see what online personality you have at the moment and which you need to adopt:

  • Clear out embarrassing photos of yourself from your Facebook.
  • Include pictures that show personality
  • Make sure you say/share something insightful on your social media every now and then

Google yourself. If you see something you wouldn’t want your employer to see, get rid of it. Remember, it’s not just your LinkedIn they’ll be looking at. Want to help a friend build their social media reputation? Check their Facebook to see if they’re on the right path.

Orchestrate Your Online Person to Employer’s Needs

Hiring has been digitalized, too. So a lot of times, employers will be searching for very specific things on Google or LinkedIn when looking for candidates. So, much like a conductor, you’ll need to orchestrate your online portals to make them more job-friendly.

Be a Conductor to Your Social Media

What you need to do then is update your professional profiles and include buzzwords you think will align with certain job titles and descriptions. It makes employers easier to find you, and in turn makes it easier for you to get a job!

Fact is, you’re being Googled no matter what you do. Now while you can’t delete every single post you made on LiveJournal as a 12 year old, you can brush up your online presence now. This way, you’ll get a job in no time!

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