After reading the article ’Snooping Bosses’ I had several thoughts on the matter of privacy. To begin with I am going to point out that employers are always looking for ways to increase efficiency of their employees. Looking at it from that standpoint it becomes obvious that implementing electronic surveillance in the workplace is in the interest of the employers. After all it is the employers that pay employees their salary and because of that they have all the reason in world to make sure they get their moneys worth.
I believe therefore that employers have the right to check how their employees spend their time during work and also to ensure that the company's employees follow the company's rules of conduct. For an example monitoring the content of email and other communication forms. Of course there is the fact that I think that all employers that uses such methods should inform all their employees of the fact that they are being monitored in a thorough manner.
This of course only describes my thoughts of electronic surveillance in a workplace environment. The article mentions that some employers also check what their employees do in their spare time. This includes continuous background checks as well as checking social websites such as Facebook. The simplest way to ensure that you don't get fired is to not post or upload anything that could have a negative effect on the company your working in.
Not only is this getting usual amongst different companies it is also becoming more prevalent in other parts of our society and it is my belief that tracking, monitoring and surveillance will become an integral part in the future. As can probably be perceived from my inclinations I favour security and safety. I reach that belief because if the police has access to more information they will hopefully solve more crimes. Also more surveillance in public places would increase the safety in such areas. Well these are my thoughts on the matter.
