... to technology, is often difficult to measure, especially when compared with the long hours and day's individuals in today's corporate environments are working. Businesses, computer/software producers, and researchers, alike, are dedicating their resources to learning more about this new stress, also known as "techno-stress" or "IT ... the fundamental mistake of opening their email," which may ultimately cloud their plans for the rest of the day. Ethics in the Workplace Both in 1997 and in 2000, the Ethics Officer Association sponsored a study on how [stress] affects employees. The Associ...

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... cocaine habit. To cover his own tracks so that he would not get caught, the employee removed the system's data-mirroring capability, making the computer systems think that the disk drives he sold were actually still there. "Can you imagine what would have happened if the system crashed?" Gillman ... and phone usage, and approximately 52% monitor their website usage. This just proves that more and more companies do not believe that their employee's hold ethics in high regards to their employment. "Speaking for myself, I think employees' Web-usage logs should be available," says Dave Aust...

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If Bill Gates hired his kids over veteran computer programmers to be his partners in business, people would be mad. If President Bush hired his daughter to be the secretary of state, people would more than likely be mad. ... these people getting benefits, the company suffers. So nepotism is clearly unethical because happiness is not attained for the most people, just two out of the whole company. In "Thinking Ethics: The Rules of the Game" by Robert C. Solomon, the author lists 8 different ethical rules. One of these, rule number four, states "Think of yourself--and your company--as part of ...

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... also hurting millions. By being always available, we are increasing our stress levels. In the article Caught in the Web: Combating Work Stress in the Information Age, by B. Statland, "The computer, the fax, the cell phone, the pager - all the trappings of the information age - cause stress in the work place." Again, these advances make us available all of the time ... stress. It has been said that cell phones lead to brain tumors. There are also problems with people sitting at computers all day, affecting sight and causing carpral tunnel syndrome. Ethics Amazingly, when the pressure is ...

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