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Welcome to WritePoint, the automated review system that recognizes errors most commonly made by university students in academic essays. The system embeds comments into your paper and suggests possible changes in grammar and style. Please evaluate each comment carefully to ensure that the suggested change is appropriate for your paper, but remember that your instructor's preferences for style and format prevail. You will also need to review your own citations and references since WritePoint capability in this area is limited. Thank you for using WritePoint. The use of e-mail, instant messaging, web page, and search engine all bring great [Writing suggestion: "great" is an overworked word, too frequently seen, and too vague. It has too many meanings: huge, superior, numerous, etc. Use a more specific adjective] benefits to organizations that invest well in it. For instance, the use of e-mail and instant messaging, which allows a message to be received in a matter of seconds, is cheaper as compare to postal or overnight delivery system. This enables employees to communicate with each other, as well as customers, with the capabilities of routing messages to multiple recipients, forwarding messages, and attaching text documents or multimedia files for quicker [Check word choice: "Quicker" is an adjective (Speed dialing is quicker), but the adverb is "more quickly" or "more rapidly" (I got through more rapidly with speed dialing)] access to information and making urgent decisions. These interactions help speed up production, solve revenue generating problems, and while enticing customers and encouraging repeat purchases of goods. However, when employees use the Internet for their personal gains, it diverts their attention from their main assignment, and the company not only loss business hours, but also revenue. This can also causes traffic on the company’s network which can slow down legitimate business for the company. Moreover, the use of the Web, search engine, and e-mailing of illegal material on companies network can tarnish the name of the company. The company can be held accountable for such practices, which can end in a courtroom causing the company to lose thousands of dollars. Although it may seems to employees that their privacy rights is been tampered with when managers try to monitor their Internet usage [Check spelling: "Usage" refers primarily to legal procedures or grammar; most writing situations call for "use"] , the management have also the right to protect it confidential data and trade secrets, which without monitoring will be easy to leaked out. However, before monitoring employees on the use of Internet, management should write corporate policies on the use of those media, stating explicit rules that defines under what circumstances employees can use the company facilities for e-mail, instant messaging, or the Web. The policies should also inform employees that they are being [Doctoral rule (but good advice for any academic writer)--If not a noun (as in "human being"), the word "Being" is hard to imagine; it means "existing." Try to rewrite this without using "being"--with action words like "attending," "working," "living," "experiencing," simply "as"--or even removing "being" completely] monitored and why. Reference Laudon, J. P., & Laudon, K. C. (2011). Essentials of management information systems (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.