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This 8 page paper examines the trouble that companies can get into through their employees' abuse of e-mail privileges. Various issues are covered including sexual harassment and the relaying of secrets. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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monitored and that their e-mails not checked so that they can briefly correspond with friends and family. Yet, employers have become aware that time spent sending personal e-mails does eat
into productive time. Some employers are more concerned about personal e-mail and telephone calls than others. In either case, the right of companies to monitor e-mail does not appear to
be desirable. It breaks down trust between the employee and the employer and creates a Big Brother atmosphere. There are a variety of opinions on this matter. The question that
looms large is, should companies have the right to monitor employee e-mail? The answer appears to be a resounding "yes." First, what is the situation at the workplace today? It
seems that many companies have instituted rules and monitoring policies and these are not really to rattle employees or to simply make sure they are not slacking, but rather to
protect the company from liability. In many situations, employers are held liable for all information that is transmitted within their systems ("Email Policy," 2005). It is due to this
fact that inappropriate e-mails sometimes do result in significant penalties (2005). In the past several years, a number of high profile suits have cropped up (2005). In the United Kingdom
for example, a firm was required to pay ?450,000 due to the fact that an employee used an e-mail to send information to a competitor suggesting that the firm
was having financial difficulties (2005). An example in the United States comes from the Chevron company where four female workers sued for $2.2 million due to "sexually harassing e-mails" (2005).
The suit involved not the sending of sexually explicit material. Rather, it was a joke sheet that described why beer is better than women (2005). Clearly, almost anything can
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