Employees in today's society are worrying about their privacy in the workplace. A problem that has become a big controversial issue is monitoring in the work environment. The purpose of this report is to analyze the fairness and control over the personal privacy infrastructure of the workplace. Monitoring employees work output such as e-mail, business calls, or searching through files, is a subject that is highly complex. Employers today are interested in screening their employees to make sure that customers are being treated properly. A study done in April of 2000, by the American Management Association, found that the number of companies today that are monitoring their employees has risen from 45% in 1998 to 74% in 1999. (Benner, 2001) It is in question whether or not work output is subject to review by your company. Employers have a number of reasons to monitor an employee's work out put. An employer's interest in employee personal information is in order to com!
             pliance with discrimination laws, to administer work place benefits, or to appropriately place workers in positions. The incorporation of the European Convention on Human Rights through the Human Rights Act may make it possible to challenge some surveillance techniques in some cases such as telephone tapping, screening for sexuality, political and religious views and even locker searches
             Technology is advancing so much as to where it is definitely affecting the work place and privacy rights. Firms have reason for concern if employees download files from the Internet and use copy written info with out giving credit to the original author. The more complicated a task, the more necessary effective work place supervision becomes. Sometimes instead of using interoffice mail to transfer a document to his or her supervisor, the boss may save time by simply reading it on the employee's computer.
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