More than one third of U.S. employees at work are controlled electronically, according to a survey by the Privacy Foundation. Employers, more and more monitoring of employees’ e-mail and Internet cruising, thanks to the low-cost technology, the companies control and can reduce the personal use of business phones and computers. Some companies have reported significant reductions of 40 to 60 percent in the non-commercial use of the telecommunications company, with cost savings. Monitoring points to other problems with communication at work. Chevron is a constant $ 2 2 million claim filed by the employees through an aggressive inter-office mail, and Dow Chemical has more than 50 people for pornographic e-mail fired. “Almost all of today’s demand in the workplace, especially a sexual harassment case is an e-mail component,” says Nancy Flynn, managing director of the ePolicy Institute. But privacy argument against the intrusive surveillance and insist that the employer should at least put on the monitoring alerts. “The practice may be, the people working on the details of the monitoring information corresponding to the case,” the Privacy Foundation. Recruitment of the alternatives that you can trust and provide appropriate guidelines for the personal use of company property proposed by the supervisor. If companies to monitor employee make the company’s phones and Internet access?
Posted March 19, 2010 
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