If you weren’t already aware, there are people in your company’s IT department that can see all if they need to. Most of the time, they’re busy with other things, but these four activities will likely put you under the microscope.
- Low productivity output: If it looks like you’re keeping busy, but always have very little to show for it, your boss may get IT to monitor your IM traffic, email traffic, and application activity.
- Saving personal files to a network: Many companies offer network storage for employees. If a system admin finds an area filling up too fast or performing slower than usual, they’ll probably look into it and find whatever you’ve put there. Best to keep the videos and music on your own drives if you don’t want to raise any red flags.
- NSFW files or web sites: Getting caught with anything that’s clearly NSFW on company equipment will all but guarantee being reprimanded and/or being monitored.
- Non-technical suspicious behavior: Most of the time, system admins get called to monitor someone because of their behavior around the workplace. Acting secretive, sneaky, aloof, dissonant, or even lazy is sometimes enough to ping on their radar.
Source: LifeHacker
