Monitoring in the Workplace

Monitoring in the Workplace: The Right to Employee Privacy Fourteen million employees -- just over one-third of the online workforce in the United States -- have their Internet or e-mail use under continuous surveillance at work. Worldwide, the number of employees under such surveillance is at 27 million, just over one-quarter of the global online workforce. In fact, an average of $140 million a year is spent on surveillance equipment for an employee, that’s an average $5.25 …

…employees say they felt as if their employers did not trust them. You have heard the employer’s justifications for employee monitoring: to save money, to discourage stealing and espionage. And you have also heard the employee’s side, and how they felt violated, humiliated, and untrustworthy. So in conclusion, I ask you to weigh both sides of the argument carefully and ask yourself one question: Does the end really justify the means? Thank you.