I want to share with you my experience of using REFOG Personal Monitor. In our department, we implement several methods of work-time management. One of them, a daily report, was our best achievement by now. Yet, I was unable to precisely determine the time needed by our employees to complete certain tasks. REFOG Personal Monitor seemed to be worth a try. Although the program can be in a hidden mode, we notified our employees that we installed it. The employees and office managers were not worried about it. They most likely were not aware of the possibilities of REFOG Personal Monitor.

After several days I have got all the logs collected by REFOG Personal Monitor and imported them into my spreadsheet. I grouped info by program name and calculated totals. Then I applied simple rules to filter the time spent on useless conversations, etc. Then we arranged a meeting and talked about the problems that had been discovered. This by itself has mproved the effectiveness of our organization by up to 20%. I have never used REFOG Personal Monitor since that time. There is no need to use it again. Simply the fact that all their time is monitored lets our employees work more effectively. This is my story of how a few dollars invested in a small software can provide you great results.

Here's how REFOG Personal Monitor works. The product works in a stealth mode. It's not listed in the Windows Task Manager and cannot be terminated by the user. REFOG Personal Monitor keeps all paths of applications running, captions of windows opened, all user's keystrokes and grabs screen shots. The program also logs the Windows Clipboard and addresses of web sites viewed in a Web browser. Logs can be automatically sent to an e-mail address or uploaded to an FTP folder on your server. The monitor can log how your employees use their PCs and to track all text typed by them.