hours is a common characteristic of the 21st century American

workplace. According to a recent study, over 130 million

workers are currently flooding recipients with 2.8 billion e-

mail messages each day. (1) Employers provide e-mail services to

their employees as an efficient means of facilitating both

intra-company communication and communication with the outside

client base. E-mail serves to increase the efficiency of

today’s workplace because it is inexpensive to provide, simple

to install and easy to use. E-mail usage also dramatically

decreases the use of office-related, paper-based correspondence.

However, despite these efficiencies, this technological

advancement is also creating collateral problems concerning

issues of employee privacy that today’s legal environment

appears unprepared to solve. This inadequacy in the law is

primarily based on the fact that many employees do not know the

extent of their privacy rights regarding their company-provided

e-mail accounts. In fact, many employees operate under the

false assumption that personal e-mail messages sent from work

electronic monitoring, showing examples of actual cases of

relationship exists between the two parties. Workplace

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