Employees should have the right to a reasonable amount of privacy “A co-worker who was changing light bulbs, one day in October, 1995, stumbled on the camera, lying on a newly installed shelf near the ceiling. He pulled the tape from it and watched the video with Nelson, who was shocked to see herself changing clothes” (Lewis 20). Gail Nelson was a secretary at Salem State College in the Small Business Development Center. She choked, when she saw a videotape in which she was changing her clothes. Not even she, nobody will tolerate these type of violation of privacy. The main point is that this incident happened on workplace where employees are monitored by their employers. “Employee monitor is the act of watching and monitor employees’
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Ethic defines the difference between right and wrong. Ethically, the major factor of privacy is individual’s intention. Invading another person’s personal life, every person has some motive behind his action of invasion. If a person is snoop another person without his permission, then this is morally wrong. It is hard to justify person’s aim behind his act. If the person’s intention is wrong, then it is like a criminal offence. Not everyone wants to share his private life with others. Nowadays, the practice of snooping is increasing on workplaces. In big business firms, employees’ email, messages and online activities are tracked down with the help of special software. This software monitors the activity of the worker from morning to evening without his permission. Spying on their workers, employers are using digital gadgets. Bill Bryson explains that two major electronic companies develop an ‘active badge’ which sends an infrared signal in fifteen second to track the position of the worker in the building even he goes to the toilet or to drink water (321). In this article “Snoopers at Work” the aim behind the tracking of the worker’s activities is to increase the productivity and to ensure that they are consuming time in a creative way. Managers just care about the production instead of worrying about workers’ convenience. They spy on their employees without their permission. It is good to have privacy at work, but it should at some extend. So that it should not become ethical to invade someone’s
Ethic defines the difference between right and wrong. Ethically, the major factor of privacy is individual’s intention. Invading another person’s personal life, every person has some motive behind his action of invasion. If a person is snoop another person without his permission, then this is morally wrong. It is hard to justify person’s aim behind his act. If the person’s intention is wrong, then it is like a criminal offence. Not everyone wants to share his private life with others. Nowadays, the practice of snooping is increasing on workplaces. In big business firms, employees’ email, messages and online activities are tracked down with the help of special software. This software monitors the activity of the worker from morning to evening without his permission. Spying on their workers, employers are using digital gadgets. Bill Bryson explains that two major electronic companies develop an ‘active badge’ which sends an infrared signal in fifteen second to track the position of the worker in the building even he goes to the toilet or to drink water (321). In this article “Snoopers at Work” the aim behind the tracking of the worker’s activities is to increase the productivity and to ensure that they are consuming time in a creative way. Managers just care about the production instead of worrying about workers’ convenience. They spy on their employees without their permission. It is good to have privacy at work, but it should at some extend. So that it should not become ethical to invade someone’s