To Watch, or Not To Watch
Enrique R. Garza
ECPI University
Employee surveillance is quite similar to spying on a permeant basis, and it is widely viewed as an infringement of constitutional rights of employees. If they do not wish to face an ugly lawsuit, organizations need to be more sensitive towards this issue. Technology makes it possible for employers to monitor any aspects of employees. Including telephones, computers, email and voice mail, and when employees are trolling online. Nearly everything one does on the office computer can be monitored. Employee monitoring is a rapid evolving resource that, if not properly regulated, employer might intrude on constitutional rights to privacy. Is monitoring a required deterrent aimed to keep employees away from unwanted activities during working hours? …show more content…
Preventing the leaking of confidential material is a major benefit. It can also increase productivity by lowering distractions which leads to better profits. Tom Reilly (President and CEO of ArcSight) believes employee monitoring is good for the employee. He continues to display a few facts that perpetrators can be in any industry. Even in organizations such as FEMA one has been found. Tom goes as far as to say, “malicious employees have been fleecing their employers for years” (2009). No doubt pointing towards the former employee of DuPont that managed to steal $400 million dollars’ worth of files from the company. Tom also went on to say, “Employees can commit cybercrimes such as fraud, identity theft and theft of intellectual property much faster and easier than un-trusted outsiders” (2009). By monitoring the network, the worry of complete data loss is expunged. The monitoring systems log every bit of data on the network for records. This also being another positive to help keep records of transactions and communications for any faltering incidents in the
Enrique R. Garza
ECPI University
Employee surveillance is quite similar to spying on a permeant basis, and it is widely viewed as an infringement of constitutional rights of employees. If they do not wish to face an ugly lawsuit, organizations need to be more sensitive towards this issue. Technology makes it possible for employers to monitor any aspects of employees. Including telephones, computers, email and voice mail, and when employees are trolling online. Nearly everything one does on the office computer can be monitored. Employee monitoring is a rapid evolving resource that, if not properly regulated, employer might intrude on constitutional rights to privacy. Is monitoring a required deterrent aimed to keep employees away from unwanted activities during working hours? …show more content…
Preventing the leaking of confidential material is a major benefit. It can also increase productivity by lowering distractions which leads to better profits. Tom Reilly (President and CEO of ArcSight) believes employee monitoring is good for the employee. He continues to display a few facts that perpetrators can be in any industry. Even in organizations such as FEMA one has been found. Tom goes as far as to say, “malicious employees have been fleecing their employers for years” (2009). No doubt pointing towards the former employee of DuPont that managed to steal $400 million dollars’ worth of files from the company. Tom also went on to say, “Employees can commit cybercrimes such as fraud, identity theft and theft of intellectual property much faster and easier than un-trusted outsiders” (2009). By monitoring the network, the worry of complete data loss is expunged. The monitoring systems log every bit of data on the network for records. This also being another positive to help keep records of transactions and communications for any faltering incidents in the