Elizabeth Harz, CEO of Connecticut-based employee monitoring software company InterGuard, gave an interview to the Washington Post where she explained some of the methods used by the company to serve some employers.

According to the executive, quoted by the portal Executive Digeste, these are necessary steps. "With the confinement and telecommuting, a good portion in our clients thought they were going to go bankrupt," she explains.

According to consulting firm Gartner, when the pandemic began in March 2020, 30% of large employers first adopted "worker spying" software, agoora 60% of the American business fabric is surrendered to this measure.

Some states, such as Delaware and Connecticut, require employers to give employees written notice of this activity, but in many regions this is not the case.

According to Harz, email is always the first front, for these kinds of monitoring activities. "Whether it's Gmail, Outlook, or another server, there are usually authorized administrators logging into your email inbox. This year Microsoft has already announced that it is "against spying at work," yet its software is still one of the eligible ones, for this kind of activity.

Companies are still in the habit of using keyboard monitoring platforms. These tools indicate how much and what you are typing. Every time you type Teramind, InterGuard, ActivTrak, Hubstaff and TimeCamp can collect data from your work.

Finally, as Harz points out, it is common for employers to investigate your browser if the computer is a work computer. As a rule "any unencrypted traffic is likely to be read if the computer is changed," explains the executive.