Corporate Invasion of Privacy – Computer and Telephone Monitoring in the Workplace

To what extent should employers monitor employees in the workplace? Is monitoring of employees a result in decreasing productivity and lowering moral? Does employee monitoring violate employees right to privacy? Employers should not monitor employees. Monitoring of employees constricts employees and allows them no freedom and they feel trapped, as if the employer doesn’t trust them. Productivity from the employees will steadily decrease from the fear that everything an employee does is being monitored. Employers that are contantly looking over their employees shoulders makes the employees feel as if “Big Brother” is watching at all times.
Computer Monitoring is most often intended to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the workplace, but with good intentions comes the opportunity for abuse by employers and employees alike. An example of both can be found in an article taken from The Futurist. Kristen Bell De Tienne's “Big Brother or Friendly Giant: Computer Mo...