REPORT ON RELEVANT ISSUES OF ELECTRONIC MONITORING OF EMPOYEES AND THE RECOMMENDATIONS MADE.

Introduction

Actual monitoring of employees in workplace has been in existence for some time now; Frederick Taylor used time and motion studies to analyze the work practices of various types of employee. But nowadays, the electronic monitoring will give the employers the more information of all the employees’ work activities in a detailed way (Ottensmeyer and Heroux, 1991). They are some network tools that can capture user log in details, the file accessed, the time it was accessed and so many other things.

What is Electronic Monitoring?

Electronic monitoring can be seen in different concepts, firstly, it can be seen by the way employers will use electronic devices to review and measure the employees work performance, for instance, the employer may decide to review the employee’s incoming and outgoing mails to see how he/she relate with the customers whether is satisfactorily. Secondly, it can be seen as electronic surveillance in such a way that the employer will use the electronic devices to know what the employee does, and also review the sites he visited for the day and check whether the site is adult site or gamble site (King, 2008).

The Frequency of Electronic Monitoring within the company

An employee maybe unaware how he is being monitored, but research showed that more than 20 millions of employees have their emails being search by their employers; in telecommunication and banking industries, it has been established that about 80% of their workers are being subject to monitoring (Dichter and Burkhardt, 1996).

Merits of Electronic Monitoring

Electronic Monitoring is very good for any company in such a way that the employer will use to enhance employees’ productivity, quality of services and also enable employer to easily detect any foul play