Whatever you do, just don’t take away the flexibility your team needs to do their jobs well. That should be written on every team leader’s forehead.

It’s pretty much a given that no small business owner wants employees wandering around aisles or chatting on the ‘net while on the company clock. But unless you want to micromanage every single thing your employees do (online and offline), there’s really no way to keep track of employee productivity without sacrificing your relationship with employees, ad this article on Entrepreneur.com discusses.

What are your options if you’re afraid a member of your team could be wasting some serious time? According to the article, “You can use software that monitors instead of blocks or filters user activity. Or you can trust that you’ve hired the right people and that employees who waste time will always be superseded by employees who are doing the right thing.”