{"id":3184,"date":"2022-01-24T11:11:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2024-05-03T08:31:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T08:31:18","slug":"how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/","title":{"rendered":"How Does employee privacy not be invaded by DeskTrack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies are increasingly adopting digital procedures, and one aspect of this trend is keeping vast volumes of data on the cloud. Everything that can be mechanized is done so for the purpose of efficiency. Employee performance indicators, which are collected by an employee activity monitoring system, are one sort of data that firms must be concerned about preserving.<\/p>\n<p>According to a 2018 Gartner survey, 50 percent of 239 major firms were monitoring employee emails and social media accounts, as well as who they interacted with and how they used their workplaces. A year later, a poll of C-suite executives conducted by Accenture revealed that 62 percent of their companies were using new technologies to collect data about their team activities. Every employer has that fear of losing productivity, which also invites revenue loss and it led to the investment in employee activity monitoring software.<\/p>\n<div id=\"2\">\n<p>The application of Employee Monitoring Software will lead to the installation of a transparent activity monitoring platform that will not only capture work data but will also check the real-time activities of the employees in the system to stop data theft without invading their privacy.<br \/>\nThis platform resembles the functioning of DeskTrack integrated with the exclusive features of AWS providing a customizable environment where users can control access and permission to the software used for data evaluation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline has-dark-red-color has-ek-indent\" style=\"--ek-indent: 20px; text-align: center; color: #224b75;\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-dark-red-color has-electric-grass-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/appdesk.timentask.com\/site\/company-sign-up-new\">Take a Free Trial<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_65 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #0a0a0a;color:#0a0a0a\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#Employee_Monitoring_Doesnt_Invade_The_Privacy_Of_Users\" title=\"Employee Monitoring Doesn\u2019t Invade The Privacy Of Users\">Employee Monitoring Doesn\u2019t Invade The Privacy Of Users<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#Non-Business_Activity_Excluded_in_Insights\" title=\"Non-Business Activity Excluded in Insights\">Non-Business Activity Excluded in Insights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#Default_Turnoff_of_Screenshots\" title=\"Default Turnoff of Screenshots\">Default Turnoff of Screenshots<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#Make_your_workday_more_productive\" title=\"Make your workday more productive\">Make your workday more productive<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#No_Video_Monitoring_Key_Logging\" title=\"No Video Monitoring &amp; Key Logging\">No Video Monitoring &amp; Key Logging<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#Full_Transparency\" title=\"Full Transparency\">Full Transparency<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/how-employee-privacy-is-not-invaded-by-desktrack\/#Conclusion\" title=\"Conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Employee_Monitoring_Doesnt_Invade_The_Privacy_Of_Users\"><\/span>Employee Monitoring Doesn\u2019t Invade The Privacy Of Users<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Non-Business_Activity_Excluded_in_Insights\"><\/span>Non-Business Activity Excluded in Insights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>One of the significant aspects of DeskTrack\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/employee-monitoring-software\"><strong>employee monitoring software<\/strong><\/a> is that it excludes the employee\u2019s non-business activities. There are times when the employee needs some personal space to relax them &amp; to make them more efficient at work, at this time they can simply pause the app to stop tracking activities &amp; resume back.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Default_Turnoff_of_Screenshots\"><\/span>Default Turnoff of Screenshots<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Usually, when the user starts using the tracker, it begins collecting random screenshots of the screen every 10 minutes. The user is alerted with a pop-up when a screenshot is captured. The user may examine, magnify, type, or alter the activity description before deciding whether to keep or remove the snapshot. Many employees may find this activity a privacy hack. The DeskTrack employee tracking system comes with the feature allowing the user to default turns off the screenshot, which is activated upon request. This is one of the primacy privacy features that make the software employee-friendly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div style=\"border-radius: 1.1rem; overflow: hidden; padding: 2rem 0rem; box-shadow: 0 0rem 0.4rem #ddd; margin: 1rem 1rem; border-top: 0.4rem solid #1e3a88;\">\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; margin: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<div class=\"box-responsive\" style=\"padding-top: 3rem; width: 50%; display: inline-block;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/desktrack_call_to_action.png \" alt=\"Bio-plugin-SDK\" width=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"box-responsive\" style=\"width: 49%; float: right;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin: 6px !important;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Make_your_workday_more_productive\"><\/span>Make your workday more productive<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"margin: 12px !important; font-size: 17px;\">Time tracking and work management can help you reach your goals faster.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0.5rem 0;\">\n<p class=\"\">Try 15 Days for Free<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a style=\"display: table; margin: 0 auto; background: #1e3a88; color: #fff; padding: 0.5rem 2rem; border-radius: 5rem; font-size: 1.5rem;\" href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/site\/index?get_started=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Start Free Trial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_Video_Monitoring_Key_Logging\"><\/span>No Video Monitoring &amp; Key Logging<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>Keylogging, which is also called the Keystroke is the activity that involved tracking every keypress entry done on the computer. Each keystroke functioned by the user signals the tracker. This process is certainly eliminated from the desktop monitoring software. In addition, the software does not conduct any video monitoring of the computer.<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Full_Transparency\"><\/span>Full Transparency<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"3\">\n<p>An ethical approach will be followed where full consent from the employees is thereby giving them rights to check what activities are being tracked and they can do self-assessment to improve their productivity &amp; efficiency. This transparency will be maintained while performing the following things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Appropriate data aggregation as per user\u2019s consent<\/li>\n<li>Customizable role-based configuration of data access<\/li>\n<li>Identifying data security risks and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Audit features for scrutiny and detailed investigation of recorded activity<\/li>\n<li>Data is encrypted at rest &amp; transit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This allows the employer to identify confidential data and prevent any leaks from the network. With <a href=\"https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\"><strong>DeskTrack<\/strong><\/a> and AWS getting integrated, there is solid data security undertaken.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline has-dark-red-color has-ek-indent\" style=\"--ek-indent: 20px; text-align: center; color: #224b75;\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-dark-red-color has-electric-grass-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\" https:\/\/desktrack.timentask.com\/site\/demo \">Get Free Demo<\/a><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In a nutshell, Desktop Monitoring Software has become a mandatory element for protecting sensitive business and non-business data related to the employees in a hybrid workforce. It enables employers to track productivity on a real-time basis and adds the benefits of secured cloud storage measures for accessing data. Without breaching personal space, this software platform is ideal to maintain a safe working environment for employees and employers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you afraid about your employee&#8217;s privacy? We have a Great Tool to fulfill your needs. 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