1. Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace
... Internet access give employees powerful tools to carry out their jobs; on the other hand, the same technology offers constant temptations to avoid work. As a 2005 study by Salary.com and America Online indicates, the Internet ranked as the top choice among employees for ways of wasting time on the job; it beat talking with co-workers "the second most ... motivations for employers to invest in surveillance programs. "Dilbert, " a popular cartoon that spoofs office culture, aptly captures how rampant recreational Internet use has become in the workplace." But monitoring online activities ...
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