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Get a fully customised webfilter installed on your network for a one-off fee of £500 and reduce your time wastage
Employees waste time surfing the internet on social networking sites such as My Space, Facebook, Bebo and many more non-business related websites. This is a cost to your business and may have more serious implications.
Aparion Limited have developed a package solution called A-Webcare to help control internet usage that brings the following benefits:
- Increased productivity by reducing wasted time
- Increased proportion of your internet connection available for business related use
- Reduced risk of viruses and spyware entering your system
- Reduction of the risk of litigation due to illegal internet usage
Many employers may not realise the hidden costs of having a completely open Internet access in the
workplace. The explosion of social networking sites means that people are socialising wherever they can get online - at home, at work or on the move.
A report by the BBC estimates that hat social networking sites could be costing employers up to £130 million per day in lost man hours. A web filtering solution such as Aparion's A-Webcare empowers you, as an employer, to decide when it is acceptable to access these Web sites, for example only at lunch time, after hours or not at all.
But it's not just about time wasting. There are now legal implications that employers could face should employees under their duty of care be found to have downloaded or exchanged offensive material. A-Webcare ensures that access to inappropriate content is avoided.
Another often overlooked factor is the effect this type of surfing has on the company's Internet connection. Bandwidth is consumed by employees sharing YouTube videos and downloading large images which means a slower Internet experience for everyone on the network. In the UK, an audit of workplace PCs by security firm PixAlert discovered that more than a quarter (25.8%) of the 10,000 PCs examined contained pornography or other inappropriate images. In a world where more and more services are being performed online through hosted services such as banking, email and CRM it is important to ensure that good quality bandwidth is available for business critical tasks.
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