Employee Privacy Report

Employee Privacy Report

Andrea C. Barreno

COM/285

March 27, 2011

Professor Jim Parkinson

Technology has changed in the last decade helping businesses to deal more with other companies. At the same time, businesses are incorporating the use of Internet and e-mails to increase their productivity with their employees. Internet allows employees to research for innovative ideas and connect to new companies faster. In addition, companies are adding the usage of e-mails to communicate internally with top management and avoid stopping a decision when they are not available. However, most companies are implementing the Internet, e-mails and privacy policy as a result of the decrease of productivity at the workplace. These policies help the company to protect itself and its employees from visiting any malicious web page or receive any e-mails with virus that could damage the data in the company.

Companies implement these policies also to protect its electronic assets because in today’s business world most of them keep their record in electronic form. Consequently, employees forget that their employers have every right to monitor their Internet or e-mail usage and that does not mean there are violation its employees’ rights. At my last workplace, they did not have a written policy for Internet or e-mail usage, but they did have a disclaimer that every employee has to click the “Accept” bottom before they logged in into your workstation. It was to inform every employee the company has the right to monitor their computer whenever the company needs to do it with or without the employees present.

This disclaimer brought some issues in the company because employees could not believe they were going to be monitored while doing their job. Individuals perceptions is impacted by emails role in improving efficiency, supporting teamwork, and providing global reach, but an organization perceptions can be that emails role can make the organization vulnerable to viruses,...