1. Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace
... surveillance are outweighed by its costs to employees' privacy and autonomy. While surveillance of employees is not a new phenomenon, electronic surveillance allows employers to monitor workers with unprecedented efficiency. In his book The Naked Employee, Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees' privacy for decades, such as drug testing, background checks, ... million in 1999 alone" (Flynn). Companies also are held legally accountable for many of the transactions conducted on their networks and with their technology. Legal sch...
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