ASSIGNMENT # 1 ELECTRONIC SERVEILANCE OF EMPLOYEES
1-Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace.
There are laws that protect employee records such as personal data, medical information, health status, social security numbers, information, and financial records. On the other hand employee workplace privacy rights are virtually nonexistent in private sector employment.
That's because up to 92% of private-sector employers conduct some type of electronic surveillance on their employees, according to estimates. Most may do so even without the knowledge of their employees. Using sophisticated software, hidden cameras, phone-tapping devices, "smart card" security badges and global-positioning technology, employers may electronically snoop employee: * Computer keystrokes and files * Internet, Web and email usage * Locations, movements and activities * Phone conversations and numbers dialed * Job performance
Employers may spy on their employees in those ways and then some, because they have the right to protect their buildings, office equipment and such. Subsequently, security legally trumps employee privacy rights in the workplace. (privacyrights.org)

2. In the office workplace there are typically two types of workspaces, an open area, in which there are several desks and where conversations can be overhead, or an enclosed office, in which when the door is closed conversations cannot be heard and where one would expect virtually total privacy. Explain whether it makes a difference if an employee is in an open area or in an enclosed office. Normally in open areas there is less privacy than enclosed office, anyone can hear or see anything happening around. Related to this in an open area having a private conversation with someone is not a god idea. Because of nature of environment defending that” it was