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The Impacts of Bossware on Business Management: An Analysis of Benefits and Challenges
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Abstract
The novel coronavirus pneumonia has forced many people to work from home. In the home-based office scenario, ensuring work efficiency and results and staying on track with business progress is a big challenge for enterprise management. Therefore, increasingly, companies use bossware to monitor employees’ working status at home through the software, hoping to urge employees to work efficiently, but the result could be better. This paper expounds on the current situation of companies using bossware in recent years and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of using bossware in enterprise management from multiple perspectives. At the same time, it puts forward suggestions on how to rationalize the management of employees under special circumstances, hoping that bossware can play its due role.
Keywords
business management, bossware, benefits, challenges
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Economic Management and Green Development
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-087-5
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-088-2
- Published Date
- 10 November 2023
- Series
- Advances in Economics, Management and Political Sciences
- ISSN (Print)
- 2754-1169
- ISSN (Online)
- 2754-1177
- DOI
- 10.54254/2754-1169/33/20231649
- Copyright
- 10 November 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited