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Employee Privacy Rights in the Workplace
Ronald Karnowski
Axia College
COM120: Effective Persuasive Writing
Melissa Singer
Due: June 10, 2007
So you’re at work and your boss tells you you’re fired because he saw you putting work items into your pocket in the changing room. Now, yes, you weren’t supposed to be doing that but is what he was doing right also? No, he was invading your privacy. But, in fact, it is the responsibility of both the employer and the employee to understand the boundaries of employee privacy rights and abide by them at all times. Privacy rights are very important in the workplace and are there to protect the employees. But if you don’t know what they are or what you’re doing wrong, how can they help you? In fact it’s a lot like living at home as you go to your homes for privacy; just like when you work you still want that sense of trust and privacy with certain things.
It’s very easy for employees to take advantage of their employee privacy rules. Because of habits and thinking too much of their life outside of work, they tend to do a lot of things they should be doing at home at work. Now how does this lead to invading your privacy? Well an employer doesn’t want his or her employee to be surfing the internet and checking e-mails while being paid by the company’s money and while they are on the clock. In my own experience, I’ve also seen people sending notes and standing around talking to each other instead of working. Employees also tend to use company phones to talk to friends and family and its most of the time not an emergency. With employees doing all this, employers have started to set up surveillance cameras and to add logging programs to their computers.
Now with all of that going on, many other challenges have arisen. One main problem is that now employers neglect the...