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Is Employee Monitoring In The Workplace Necessary?

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Debbie Brixey
Misti Brock
ENG 1302.W900
30 September 2016
Is Employee Monitoring in the Workplace Necessary? Do employees really have the right to have their privacy in the workplace? Employees today only see their own individual rights and they forget about the office work rules. One of the main issues that is questioned by employees is, why am I being monitored at work, do I as an employee not have privacy rights in the workplace? Employees need to look at the big picture and asked themselves, is this equipment that I need for my day to day job my own? But with companies the corporation and or persons who own the business is the actual owner of all the office equipment and computers and any other type of equipment that the employee uses …show more content…

According to the article Employee monitoring: Privacy in the workplace, “Monitoring has been used to determine pay and promotion decisions as well as to reinforce disciplinary actions” (8). This issue has long been ongoing, but when your pay and promotion is based on your actual performance and not by your manager’s personal judgement of you, this is a fair system. I disagree with employees who think that by using the monitoring system to use for an increase in pay and/or promotion, this keeps everything fair for …show more content…

I feel save at work knowing we have video surveillance equipment that is monitoring our parking lots and doors, and we have to use badges to gain access to the building This type of monitoring protects myself as an employee but it also protects our members and providers that we service, to have their protected health information secure. I have worked for this corporation for over ten years and this issue is very real in my job and they will always have an ongoing employee monitoring system program. My job is a telecommuter job, so I work from home; my personal emails if sent from my home computer will be monitored. I am in full support of any type of employee monitoring such as; monitoring my phone falls, my computer and internet

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