After reading the article called "Snooping Bosses" ...

I read some time ago a similar article in The Wall Street Journal and it showed that a third part of the world’s largest companies, monitor employee e-mail .

The main reason is because of the fear that company owners have about workers spending work time on personal e-mails.


Otherwise, thanks to these practices it has been discovered that there are indeed employees that abuse of company email by using it for non-productive ends and therefore lead to them losing their job. But although people do have the right for privacy, these rights disappear once the people are situated in their work space.

But this shouldn’t be necessary if the employees didn’t misuse the internet on his work shift for personal reasons.

This is the most direct impact that non-monitored work conditions can have because then, the company would e paying him to do personal things instead of working. This causes a lot of costs to the company in time because workers are spending work time for other purposes and distracting their co-workers, and in money which is spent on bandwidth resources not used for work purposes. Additionally, studies show that workers do in fact misuse companies’ resources and therefore, it is necessary to take these measures even if some people say it is not quite morally correct.


One solution for this problem is to have a strict code of conduct on internet usage within the organization and make the employees conscious that this is happening.

This is because if it is found by these methods that there are still people that misuse the internet in their workplace, then there would be no choice than to sack those workers and continue monitoring everybody. But probably by making workers conscience that they are being monitored, they would not try to infringe the company’s code of conduct and therefore the company doesn’t risk loosing a good employee. But in fact, if it is shown that employees do abide the rules, then the company should consider lifting the monitoring activities and spending those resources in something more productive.


Another solution that would arise from this problem is to have somebody to personally monitor each worker of the company. The purpose of this is to give the feeling to employees that they are being watched over and therefore, avoid misusing the internet during work hours.