Time to Update Your Employee Monitoring Policy?
October 20, 2006
Jay Cline
"You have no expectation of privacy!" So say most corporate privacy policies for employees, like a bullying reminder of the obvious. But the recent boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. involving Web bugs and "pretexting" has employees asking if they should be afforded some basic privacy protections in the workplace. Companies that want a dedicated and productive workforce shouldn't hesitate to extend to their employees their often-stronger customer privacy policies, disclosing in that policy all the monitoring they will -- and won't -- do to detect insider wrongdoing.
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"You have no expectation of privacy!" So say most corporate privacy policies for employees, like a bullying reminder of the obvious. But the recent boardroom scandal at Hewlett-Packard Co. involving Web bugs and "pretexting" has employees asking if they should be afforded some basic privacy protections in the workplace. Companies that want a dedicated and productive workforce shouldn't hesitate to extend to their employees their often-stronger customer privacy policies, disclosing in that policy all the monitoring they will -- and won't -- do to detect insider wrongdoing.
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