For organizations and their employees, 2020 was a uniquely transformative and challenging year. Although this reality is expressed in many ways—including a global pandemic, a deep economic recession, perpetual social unrest and a litany of natural disasters—in the professional environment, it is most acutely observed in the rapid and wide-spread transition to remote work.

Want to use productivity reports to measure employee performance? Measuring productivity is essential to understand how your organization can function better. Managers use several ways to measure employee productivity — like tracking performance metrics and implementing software or hardware systems to track employee behavior. However, all the collected productivity data won’t make a difference if they’re not organized into a presentable form with productivity reports.

Curious about monitoring user activities? User activity monitoring can offer tons of benefits to businesses of all sizes — from greater productivity and workplace transparency to reduced security risks. However, stealth monitoring can cause problems like legal issues, employee mistrust, and workplace privacy invasion. So what’s the right way to monitor user activities?

Interested in remote employee productivity management? The COVID 19 pandemic has made it essential for many organizations to adopt a remote work culture. However, even before the pandemic, companies realized the value of having a remote workforce and overcame the initial challenges. They now operate efficiently and even flourish as an established remote business. So which remote employee monitoring techniques do they use to ensure remote employee productivity?

In many ways, 2020 was a year of reckoning for data privacy on the internet. After more than a decade of enthusiastically embracing a “freemium” model in which consumers traded copious amounts of personal data for access to digital platforms, many are adopting a rapid about-face. Now, privacy is essential, and stakeholders are taking notice. To date, it’s clear that many companies see this as an obstacle, not an opportunity.

Dealing with insider threats requires a different strategy from other security challenges because of their very nature. Insiders have a significant advantage. They are aware of the organization’s policies, procedures, technology and vulnerabilities. They often have access to important systems, business IP and sensitive data. As such, they can cause a business the most damage compared to external attackers such as hackers.