Is privacy and electronic monitoring in the work place an issue that is becoming a problem? More and more employees are being monitored today then ever before and the companies that do it aren't letting off. With all the technology used in the workplace it is more likely than not that employee' activities are monitored whether by email, telephones, the computer system. What limits are there to employers' intrusions into, and/or control over, employees behaviors? To what extent is monitoring an employee acceptable? Unless an employer can prove illegal activities are taking place it could be a violation of privacy.
The question of an employee's right to privacy poses a particularly difficult ethical dilemma. The employer has an ethical obligation to the worker, to honor their privacy and their general human dignity and rights. The right to privacy also protects private employee information, so that an employee may not disclose information. If that disclosure would be offensive to a......
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