1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the work place.
Aside from the more measurable costs, employees emphasize their need to preserve at work what they expect to maintain elsewhere, a sense of dignity and self-respect. Within the workplace typical employees would expect to have minimal. Privacy in this aspect gives individuals, from factory workers to presidents a chance to lay their masks aside. The more employees share space, cubicles and networked computers, the harder it is to maintain personal privacy. Necessary boundaries of mental distance in interpersonal situations should be initialized raging from the most intimate to the most formal and public. Some companies legitimately monitor you for business reasons, not simply to snoop through your life. According to The American Management Association there are five justifiable reasons that your employer can monitor you at work. To make sure that you are legally complying with their standards. For instance, if you are a telemarketer, your employer may record your transactions and store the information to keep adequate and accurate files should they require documentation or evidence in the future. While 90 percent of companies who admit to spying on their employees admit that their workers are aware of it, others may not provide the same courtesy to their employees. In fact, employees may feel that any type of monitoring is a violation of your privacy. Some businesses go so far as to utilize tools to test how honest their employees are, using a “virtual lie detector” test. There are certainly companies who are spying on their employees for less than legitimate reasons but when you are using company computers and networks, what you say and do becomes their business if they want it to be. The Electronic Privacy Communications Act of 1986 (EPCA) already provides some