For this blog post, read the Interactive Session on page 266, Monitoring Employees on Networks: Unethical or Good Business?, and answer questions 1-3. Remember to give a detailed response.
1. Managers should monitor employee e-mail s and Web use to ensure that employees are actually due their jobs. As it says in the article, we lose $650 billion per year due to employee Internet surfing during the business hours. Personal use of the Internet should be done during break hours or after work hours. Truthfully, managers should not have to resort to monitoring their employees email and computers. An employee should be doing anything they could to increase work output, not using their time to update their Facebook status.
2.Employees should have at least two email addresses: one for work business and one for personal business. That way employees do not get distracted by emails for family or friends when they go online to look up important business emails. A good Web use policy would be to have all business computers block sites such as Facebook and Youtube during business hours and/or have a separate room with separate computers for break hours so the employees can do what they want when they are not on the clock.
3.Managers should let their employees know they their computers are being monitored. This ensures that the employees were given a warning about using business hours to check on personal business. The employees will then not be able to use the excuse 'I didn't know'. While monitoring employees computers reveals secrets the employees do not want managers to find out about does not mean the manager gets to keep secrets from the employees. There should not be any secrets in a workplace.
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