Laura Petrecca answered “Yes” to the issue “Does an employer’s need to monitor workers trump employee privacy concerns?” in her article. She believes that every employee has been using working hours to dealing with personal things, for example, updating face book, checking personal emails or watching YouTube. In every company in the exception of highly secured companies or governmental agencies. Two-third of employers monitor worker’ internet usage according to the survey from American Management Association. Employers are seeking increased productivity and watching employees to make sure they are not trading secrets, sending personal emails, sexually harassing co-workers or positing posting negative or discriminatory remakes on the internet. …show more content…
Once employees step into dangerous areas such as publicly criticizing their companies, or vulnerable to employer discipline. Even if a company is open about employee activities monitoring, Management should take action to communicate with employees about what activities will be monitored. National Workrights Institutue answered “No” to the issue “Does an employer’s need to monitor workers trump employee privacy concerns?” in the article. The article pointed out that IT employees often monitor their fellow employees for personal reasons. Employees do not know whether it is their email, voice mail, web access, or hard drive that is monitored. They do not know whether the monitoring is continuous, random, or as needed. They do not even know that whether they are being monitored at all. These kind of notice in the workplace is worse than no notice. Many people work from home to day and use their home computer. Employer believes that conducting monitoring in order to increase productivity. However, too much monitoring can decrease productivity by increasing employee stress and decreasing morale. Pressure to increase productivity has adverse effects on the quality of work