Danger - Children at Home
Summer holidays typically begin for school children the week after Labor Day. This means that you and your employees may have children home for the summer months during business hours when you may be working from a home office on a temporary basis or perhaps as part of a longer-term telecommuting arrangement. If you have teenagers who want to use your computers, you will need to ensure that safeguards are in place. Social networking hubs and music download sites that are especially popular with teenagers are often vectors for viruses or mal-ware. You wouldn’t want those to infect your home computers and certainly not the computers you use for your small business. So make certain that your business computer is used for business purposes only. This will also make your tax reporting easier, since there will be no question about the purpose of the computer. Insist that your employees do the same. And you may want to take appropriate cautions to teach your children about computer safety as these are good habits to learn as they become more proficient with technology.