The Internet opens up a whole new world of business opportunities for companies. Companies can now offer their products through online shopping. Staff can research huge stores of information, share ideas, or work with other employees on the other side of the world. There is no doubt the Internet has become a valuable asset to many companies.

But, for all it's added benefits, the Internet has created just as many problems for businesses. Corporate security and computer viruses are a few that come to mind, but what of worker productivity? In as much as the Internet has increased the resources available to companies it has also in some cases decreased worker productivity.

Studies have shown that companies are losing considerable amounts of money in lost productivity due to employees surfing the web. In fact these studies have shown that about 30% of the American work force spend around an hour and a half each day on company time surfing the net. That equates to 390 work hours lost per person per year! It doesn't take long to realize how much that can cost a company.

Aside from productivity issues there have been recent studies that indicate that 28 percent of Americans surf adult content web sites and worst of all a majority of them are doing it at work! There is even software advertised on the Internet that claims to be able to hide this type of activity from an employer.

Unfortunately, unless your business is large enough to be able to afford a full time IT staff, this type of activity tends to go unnoticed.

Not only could your business be losing money on unproductive employees, what about the legal expenses involved? Unfortunately there are adult content sites that depict photos of underage children. Can your company afford to have their computer equipment seized if an individual were to be investigated by the authorities and child pornography is found on a company computer? Many small companies could be put out of business if such were to happen.

SGC Computer Forensics, LLC offers services to allow companies of all sizes to monitor Internet usage by their employees. We can tailor services to do spot checking on a random basis or develop a strategy for companies to have continual Internet monitoring.

Don't expose your company to lost productivity or loss of equipment. Let SGC Computer Forensics, LLC help develop a plan to protect your business.