Employee E-Mail, Instant Messenger Use Spurs Privacy Changes
‘Courts have consistently upheld the rights of business owners to monitor their employees, but an increase in the amount of employees who use instant messaging or personal e-mail in the office is forcing companies to draft new policies regarding employee privacy .
“The key is drafting company policy that explicitly and fairly tells your employees exactly what rights they have, making sure everybody knows and understands this policy, and then consistently enforcing it,” said Ronald J. Souza, a partner in the labor and employment practice of Epstein Becker & Green.
Employees frequently feel violated upon learning that their e-mail has been monitored. According to Souza, the best way to prevent these situations from happening is to warn employees upfront that their activity might be monitored at any time and that they should expect no privacy from workplace computers. Checking personal e-mail accounts, according to most current company policies, should be limited, and sites that feature pornography, hate groups, or copyrighted material should be outright banned.’
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