Brilliant post on treating employees like adults
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Management, Networking
According to Frank Hayes' Computerworld blog, Websense has come out with a study that says that companies are losing a total of $178 billion.
Then he goes on to quite smartly and succinctly detail why this number is bogus and why using technologies like Websense to monitor and control how employees access the web is a bad idea. Unless you like morale at your company down in the dumps, where people do every job to the letter and don't go that extra mile.
It's so simple. Treat your employees like adults and they will act like adults. Treat them like kids and they will act like kids.
These technologies are just another way for people who are ineffective at managing their employees to scapegoat their personnel instead of managing effectively to make sure that people are working to their potential.
So instead of learning about what a particular charge of theirs is working on, managers are now looking at what they are browsing instead? Nice.
Want to save money? Try hiring managers that can actually get staff to work well while enjoying it. Then you can use the money you saved from lost productivity, hardware, software and IT costs related to installation of such a service (yes, I guarantee you that most companies lose a lot of man hours by installing net nannies - IT people cannot possibly know what sites have a credible use for workers in a company) and put it to something useful like increasing sales or, heaven forbid, you invest it back to the workers in a way that improves morale.
Gift certificates for Amazon anyone?
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