Privacy

Privacy Running head: WORKPLACE PRIVACY IN THE INTERNET AGE Abstract Employers want their employees to do a good job, but employees do not want their every move logged. New technologies make it possible for employers to monitor many aspects of their employees’ performance, especially when employees are using the Internet and e-mail. This monitoring is, for the most part, unregulated. Therefore, unless an employer’s policy specifically states to the contrary, employees must be mindful that most of their workplace communications are being listened to and read. Workplace privacy in the internet age Module 5 – Workplace Privacy Issues Introduction The workplace in the United States has undergone a dramatic shift in the way business is conducted due to the introduction of the ubiquitous personal computer. While businesses have been using mainframe computers for decades in many roles, these systems were reserved for particular uses and were certainly not accessible to every user. With the revolution of personal computers, employees in a wide variety of fields encompassing all elements of the economy are increasingly using electronic means to get all or most of their work done. The addition of the Internet and its applications such as e-mail and the World Wide Web has privacy, employees, e-mail, company, electronic, workplace, employee, business, employers, monitoring, internet, information, computer, communications, policy, personal, messages, employer, web, systems, monitor, case, using, usage, being, work, statement, private, interests, equipment, employees’, access, about, time