Essays on Workplace Privacy

While most contemporary concerns about a right to privacy, or lack of it, seem to focus on the traditional debate of when or if the government should have the authority to limit our privacy in order to ensure a safer community; an equally important, but less analyzed concern is privacy in the workplace. To be sure, the workplace is a potentially more threatening environment for privacy in that, unlike the government, there are no constitutional requirements and few legal restraints on the ways employers or people can invade one’s privacy. In fact, employers can literally write their own “ ...

Employers have the right to monitor and control the use of its internet resources and company equipment. This can be for the purpose of evaluating productivity of employees and protecting itself from external attacks or possible suits that could occur as a result of internet misuse by its employees. The information can be used to fire the employee mostly in two situations. First, when the employee had been informed and signed a contract with the employer regarding the type of activities that will be monitored, the employer can use the browsing history to arrive at a decision. If an ...

Nowadays it seems to be evident that employees are under the permanent influence of their employers. Therefore, many of the aspects of the employees’ lives have the large outer impact of their workplace and the team of colleagues. However, there should also exist another part of the workers’ actions, which are definitely out of their organization’s reach. This necessity is a natural need of privacy, which concerns the private life and time beyond the borders of their enterprise. Nevertheless, this distinction between the private life and the work time creates some empty space, which creates a well debatable ...

With the increase in technological innovation and advancement, the employees' privacy right is highly violated. Employee information that is stored on computers and shared through the internet is not safe from the accessibility of hackers and the state. In that accord, the employees' privacy rights are at a greater potential of erosion and this calls for law enforcers to be motivated to keep pace with the violators (Levinson, 2009). Since the employee is a human being with private though, information and life, these rights must be observed by the employer, the state and the public. However, due to the many insecurity ...

Introduction

Legal and ethical issues related with employees monitoring at workplace are rising. Government has formed various laws to protect employees on various issues such discrimination, safety and security and equality. Employers also brought various changes at workplace such as advance technology, diversified workforce and effective & transparent processes. All such changes resulted in making: process more complex, increased policies and regulations to protect employees’ concerns. Not all these changes are welcomed by employees and employee monitoring at workplace gained lot of attention. Employee monitoring has become a topic of debate. This research paper intends to analyze legal and ethical aspects involved ...

Introduction

In recent times, the advancement of technology has brought with it numerous changes to the manner in which business is transacted and the way people communicate. Several decades ago, any ordinary office had employees such as messengers and errand persons who would be employed for the sole purpose of taking information from one office to another and from one organization to the next. Operations largely depended on human effort to be completed and much of the work was done manually without the use of even the simplest machines that would make this work easier. However, with technology, many inventions ...

As with most employee privacy issues, this is a simple case of needing to balance the rights of employees with the consequences for the organization. Discuss your arguments using ideas from ethical theories and stakeholders theory. ` Cyberspace has presented a great chance for people to interact and share personal details. The private information that employees make public through online forums or rather social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and numerous internet blogs is utilized by many potential employers, current employers and recruiters seeking further information regarding their employees(Dupree, 2006,P.32). It is worth noting that when individuals ...