Q: Can my employer track my laptop activity?

You can beat the employee monitoring software by using a dual-monitor setup. This means the company will have to connect two monitors to the PC, allowing you to hover the mouse from one screen to another. You can use one screen to do whatever you want and keep a second screen for working as they will only be able to track the primary screen.

To stop your employees from spying on you, use the following tips: Use VPN to hide your location which will make your online behavior untrack able. The Red Herring – you can trick the software by opening multiple files or browsers when you are not working as employee monitoring software will only be able to access the main window, so they will not be able to capture a secondary window opened on your screen.

To detect employee monitoring software, check Your Background Processes: If you use Windows 10, press the Alt + Ctrl + Del keys and open the Task Manager. Choose the Processes tab and see if there is any familiar employee monitoring software running secretively. To check on a MacBook, go to Utilities, and start the Activity Monitor. These monitoring software's usually consume a lot of RAM and CPU, which makes it easily detectable.

Over the time employees have learned how trick employee monitoring software some of these methods are - Disabling the Software, Employees who are capable of coding often use their expertise to deceive the time tracker’s software which will cause it to crash. Other than this Time tracking tools take automatic screenshots of their employees’ desktops to check if they are working at a certain time. Employees trick this system by learning the time intervals between screenshots and only start working right at the time the app is about to take a screenshot.

Some of the software tools used for employee monitoring are Hubstaff, Controlio, ActivTrak, and Teramind.