Assignment 1: Electronic Surveillance of Employees Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Strayer University. January 22, 2012 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy has become an extremely important part of American culture. Privacy is freedom from unsanctioned intrusion (American Heritage Dictionary). It is an implied right based on the Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments of the Constitution (August, et al., 2001). Employees
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where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Reasonable expectation of privacy for an employee could require a balancing test as what the US District Court judge used in the 1996 case of Michael A. Smith v. The Pillsbury Company. The judge ruled in the defendants favor saying that Pillsbury’s “interest in preventing inappropriate and unprofessional comments or even illegal activity over the email system outweighed any privacy interest the employee may have
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1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. From the time an employee reaches his work place or is on a sales call he is typically on either company property or he may be on property owned by a customer of his company. So that employee is now utilizing company time- which he is being paid for, equipment and supplies. Taking this into consideration, a reasonable interference is expected from the company. The only place an employee should reasonably expect
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Electronic Surveillance of Employees Legal 500 10/20/2011 1. Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. The increased use of technology in the workplace has generated new fears for both employers and employees in the privacy region. These days most employees have access to email, and internet access in the workplace, as opposed to a decade ago, has also exploded. According to an IDC Corporation study, two-thirds of employees in medium and large companies
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Employees Mitchell D. Upchurch Anthony Robinson Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance- LEG 500 January 17, 2011 Privacy in the Workplace Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. Privacy in the workplace can reasonably be expected in three general areas as it relates to the employer, co-workers, clients and customers. When an employee is hired at a new company, there are several security measures that are already in place in order to keep their
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Explain where an employee can reasonably expect to have privacy in the workplace. In today’s age of e-mail, internet, and increased use of technology, there are very few places that an employee can expect to have privacy in the workplace. The sanctuary of one’s enclosed office used to be expected to warrant privacy but not anymore. There are no uniform legal standards protecting employee privacy in the workplace. Employers can get away with denying workplace privacy because they own the
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Employers want to be sure that their employees are performing their duties, but employees want to have a bit of privacy and not have their every sneeze or bathroom break monitored. This is the conflict of workplace monitoring. Technologies today allow employers to monitor almost every aspect of their employee’s job including the time he, or she, arrive to the office, telephone use, Internet use, computer terminals, and voicemail. This kind of monitoring is virtually unregulated, therefore, unless
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Head: Electronic Surveillance Of Employees Electronic Surveillance of Employees Cathy D. Brown Professor:: Anne Dewey-Balzhiser LEG500- Law, Ethics and Corporate Governance Date: January 22, 2012 Introduction: Some would say that workplace privacy rights are non-existent in the private sector. Workplace surveillance is that employers have a legitimate right to conduct surveillance for the benefit of themelves, the community at large for purpose such as detection of fraud and other crimes
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Individual Assignment: Employee Privacy Report • Write a 1,050- to 1,200-word report addressing e-mail, Internet use, and privacy policies. • Answer: o What are the e-mail use, Internet use, and privacy policies at your job? o What are the current laws regulating employee e-mail and Internet privacy? o Why do companies implement e-mail and Internet use policies? o What assumptions might employees make about their privacy at work? How do these policies affect employee privacy at work? 3.
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Introduction In this era of technology and information explosion, social media has become a part of our lives, almost everyone have their own Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Blogs account. Nowadays social media is becoming increasingly popular; a survey (SilkRoad Technologies, 2012) shows 75% of employees logged social media while at work at least once a day, with 60% accessing multiple times. The report also pointed out that most of companies have not develop clear guidelines and policy for using
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