Keep a watchful eye on employee surfing without going overboard Mie-Yun Lee With their businesses' best interest in mind, more and more business owners have started monitoring their employees' Web usage. Quick Tips Get trials .
Most vendors offer free downloadable month-long trials of their software.
Give it a whirl before you shell out the cash. Make sure you have an e-mail and Internet policy that notes what kind of sites shouldn't be accessed and what the repercussions will be if Internet access is abused. Leave room for mistakes. It's easy to accidentally access the wrong site. If your tracking software shows an employee accessed an offensive site only once, take this into consideration.