A normal employee is afflicted on an average with the following activities:

• sleeping 7h
• morning toilet 1h
• going to work 1,5h
• work time, incl. breaks 8,5h

6 hours remain an employee may organize his private life. In this time the following activities are made:

• shopping
• go to dinner
• hobbies
• sport
• family
• tv (on average 3 hours per day)
• friends

No miracle an employee has no time in his "non-sleeping and not-working“ hours to effect all private executions. The result is that these activities have to be settled within working hours:

• writing letters
• calls
• chats
• surfing internet

Productivity Report

Just in the area of surfing the internet, consumer behaviour has increased terrifically.

Today a private email address is a "status quo" and on-line trade has increased with unbelievable sales growth during the last years. Also platforms like eBay, mobile, immowelt, partnerscout, expedia, have seen huge growth during the last years. If the employee plans a trip to the U.S., several hours on the computer are spent to catch up information about the trip. "How much time do you spend on the Internet around one of the above mentioned activities?“


Analysis of internet activity

The reality is, that we execute during the working hours these activities. Therefore, in modern employment contracts a clause for private usage is included to avoid conflicts regarding such activities. But even if you write „10% of private use is allowed“ in the employment contract - how can you control this?

So it is time to think about the purchase of a software which controls these activities.

If you do not have, by the way, such a clause in the employees contracts,you should immediately insert something to fix usage of your infrastructure, in which you explain the measures and the employees has to agree.

Day Summary

In the U.S., you will find also monitoring software which go further than the data privacy standards in Europe. These programms are not only tape key click, they also save the contents of emails and chat protocols. You will not find this in our Cyclope software and, therefore, Cyclope is also primarily to be foreseen, to increase the productivity. Cyclope evaluates the addresses and resting time, but not the contents. It delivers the complete material for a well-balanced and not too extreme monitoring which leads to mutual satisfaction increases. Several companies have ascertained after the introduction and have proved the cost saving of using our software. The cost is amortised within the shortest time.


6 steps toward more productivity