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Privacy and Computer Ethics


Unfortunately, most employers that engage in digital surveillance monitoring, do so surreptitiously. When workers do not know they are being monitored, the right of privacy is presumptively eroded.
             Employee productivity is crucial for ensuring that businesses are running at full capacity. According to the "Online Journal of Applied Knowledge Management" Organizations should have the right to monitor their employees to protect the company and the fellow employees while still maintaining productivity. Personal surfing has become an enormous problem for employers. Employees shop, gamble, play games, chat, watch and share videos and visit online red-light districts all during working hours. Estimates as to the amount of time that is lost to cyber slacking vary enormously, but most studies put it in the region of 2.5 hours per employee, per day. Multiply that 2.5 hours by the number of employees and the average hourly pay rate in the organization, and that will only be a ballpark estimate of the price of cyber slacking. An employee who worries all day about whether or not their Amazon order got delivered is likely going to be much less productive than the employee who checks on the order first thing in the morning, and then moves on with their day.
             Furthermore, Management needs to monitor their staff's communications to protect their company from legal lawsuits and to reduce liability risks. Telephone monitoring is a standard method of employer monitoring. Supervisors may listen in on employee telephone calls or record conversations for later review. This technique, referred to as computerized work measurement, refers to the practice of monitoring an employee's computer screen as he works and collecting data about the employee's work performance. The employer also has the right to videotape places where the employee has no reasonable expectation of privacy such as work stations, hallways, work areas, building exterior areas, parking lots, employee break rooms, and common areas.


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