Thursday, April 28, 2016

Blog 19: Can a employee use personal email or other computer resources for work?

If an employee uses his or her personal email or other computer resources for work related activities, it may lead to negative outcome. Employers can monitor anything that employees access and it is legal to do so. If employers think an employee is suspicious, then the employers can access to his or her computer and see all of his data that are saved in his computer. In addition, if employee sends work to his or her personal email because he or she wants to finish at home, employers may misunderstand that the employee tries to steal company’s information and the employers may delete all the data saved in his or her computer.
            When an employee decides to use personal computer resources to conduct work related activities, employee should make sure not to spread the company’s information and not let someone steal the information and should agree that he or she got caught doing some illegal things, his or her personal data can be deleted. When an employee decides to use his or her employer’s computer resources to conduct personal activities, the employee should understand that George Carlin software can always access everything. The employee has to be extremely careful when he or she uses employer’s computer to do personal activities.

            At first, I personally thought that employer monitoring employee’s activities is invasion of privacy. However, now I believe that this policy, employer monitoring employee’s activities, is reasonable. Because, if I were an employer, I would like to evaluate who the good workers are and terminate the one who do not work. Through this policy, employers can find the workers who violate the company’s policy, use inappropriate language, or use for personal purpose. Therefore, I think the practice of employers monitoring employee activities on their computer systems is reasonable. 

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