Stepping aside from actual 1031 exchange issues for a moment, I want to introduce a good friend of mine, Laura Soussan, and a really cool new software package that she is selling.  Spector 360 is a company-wide employee monitoring software that provides powerful, centralized employee internet monitoring.  In these tough economic times, it is crucial for company owners and managers to be able to directly quantify employee productivity, especially since payroll is generally a company’s largest expense.  Furthermore, new data security laws force many companies to ensure that client and company information is being properly used and secured by employees.  I am fortunate enough to have phenomenal employees at both All States 1031 Exchange Facilitator, LLC and at my law firm McLaughlin & Quinn, LLC.  So, I need not worry about their internet activities.  Even still, I am considering purchasing this software.

Spector 360 records the websites that your employees visit, emails sent and received, chats and instant messages, keystrokes typed, files transferred, documents printed and programs or applications run.  Spector 360 takes the recorded internet and computer activities from each of your employees, feeds that information into a database and provides you with more than 50 built-in reports and unlimited customization.  Furthermore, the user-friendly design of Spector 360 is perfect for any company’s owners and managers to use, even if they are not necessarily “tech-savvy.”

Spector 360 is amazingly easy to operate and the information is timely and useful.  Laura tells me of one company that caught an employee illegally downloading movies while at work.  Beyond the fact that she was breaking several laws that could implicate the employer, her actions were slowing down the network to the point that the entire company was being brought to a standstill.  The IT guys were unable to locate the problem, but the Spector 360 program honed in on the culprit.

If you are interested in learning more about this program and Laura’s company, CommSat, click here or you can reach Laura by phone at 603-601-0055 or by e-mail at laura@commsat.net.