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- Surveillance law trips up HR.
- Sep 08, 2005 (Human Resources - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The New South Wales Workplace Surveillance Act 2005 is creating difficulties for human resource HR departments. Internet Industry Association chief executive Peter...
- Research articles 2005-09-08
- Whose Computer Is It Anyway?
- The explosion of the Internet, and the ease of information access it provides, has become both a blessing and a curse for many employers. While it gives workers and their employers the ability to "google" helpful business resources, it can also threaten the security of a workplace computer system, result...
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Are Social Networking Sites a Liability at Work?
- When social networking sites first launched, most employers quickly blocked access to them at work, arguing that it was a blatant demonstration of time-wasting. Attitudes are changing, with companies either conceding that access to social networking sites is a necessary evil or, for...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Spying isn't always a good thing.(Brief Article)
- Turns out that spying on employees doesn't make them more productive. In fact, a Purdue University expert on workplace surveillance says that electronically monitoring work may be counter-productive. "Most companies institute employee su Turns out that spying on...
- Research articles 2001-03-01
- E-Mail Security: PaperLess Ink Notes Thirty Percent Annual Increases in E-Mail Surveillance According to New AMA Survey - American Management Association survey; Introduces a new Security and Mail Surveillance product - Product Announcement
- PaperLess Ink, Corporation, a premier e-mail surveillance and document management software company, Tuesday commented on the 1999 American Management Association AMA survey on workplace monitoring and surveillance. John D'Angelo, CEO of PaperLess, noted, "According to annual AMA surveys, review and archiving of e-mail messages has increased by...
- Research articles 1999-04-26
- War In The Workplace: Employment Issues In The Post-9/11 Workplace
- From the executive summary: ‘Post September 11 terrorist attacks, in the light of increased security concerns, many companies have begun to conduct background checks on current and prospective employees. Others have instituted surveillance programs to monitor their employees' e-mail, Internet, and telephone usage. While such policies are certainly advisable, employers...
- White papers 2003-06-01
- Technology in the Workplace: A Recipe for Legal Trouble
- Not since the adoption of surveillance cameras in the workplace has there been such a national panic over the issue of employee privacy, nor have the stakes been higher. Computers are as common as telephones in the business world these days, yet their potential for abuse is astronomically higher, they...
- White papers
- Privacy lacking in the office. (American Civil Liberties Union study reveals extent of employee surveillance)
- Employers going to new lengths to monitor workers: ACLU Employers are using more sophisticated methods, and using them more frequently, to intrude on employee's workplace privacy, a recent report contends. The methods employers used that violate indivEmployers going to new lengths to monitor workers: ACLU ...
- Research articles 1996-09-23
- Porn surfing still powers Australian staff surveillance.
- Oct 12, 2001 (ZDNet.com.au ABIX via COMTEX) -- Workplace monitoring in Australia is not adequate. Australian employers are still preoccupied with pornography and the legal liability resulting from sexual harassment, whereas US companies are dealing with more important issues. According to an Internet...
- Research articles 2001-10-14
- A Double-edged Sword: The World of Electronic Communications Monitoring and Its Impact on Workplace Privacy
- This webcast asserts that electronic technology is quick and convenient but on the other side its cons are reduced productivity and accessibility to all. It tells about some surveys revealing surveillance practices in the U.S. companies. But on the other hand it is useful also as it can help one...
- Webcasts 2003-06-13
- Big Brother's Corporate Cousin : HIGH-TECH WORKPLACE SURVEILLANCE IS THE HALLMARK OF A NEW DIGITAL TAYLORISM.
- Winston must log on to the computerized phone system at Charles Schwab brokerage firm no later than seven minutes after 8, or she'll be harassed by a supervisor, called a "team lead." Once her computer is up and running, a message appears announcing yesterday's "productivity scores"...
- Research articles 2001-08-06
- Protecting employer rights: RIMS defends legitimate use of surveillance
- Although questions about employee monitoring have attracted considerable attention recently, RIMS has been involved in this issue for the past six years. In several instances, the U.S. Congress has considered legislation aimed at curtailing the ability of employers to monitor employees electronically in the workplace. In each instance, the proposed...
- Research articles 1997-04-01
- Managing risk from within: monitoring employees the right way
- No one thinks twice about having employees punch time clocks to document their work time. Eyebrows are not raised over procedures for checking out and returning expensive equipment when an employee heads out for an assignment offsite. And few question the use of secured entrances to control who comes and...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- State labor legislation enacted in 1998
- Increases in minimum wage rates, prevailing wage changes, child labor revisions, workplace surveillance regulations, and bans on employment discrimination were major subjects of State labor legislation A number of major pieces of State labor legislation were adopted in 1998, despite an unusually light volume of enactments.(1) The greatest areas...
- Research articles 1999-01-01
- The Right Way To Spy On Employees
- Be honest. We're you really surprised at the revelations that State Department employees took clandestine peeks at the presidential candidate's passport files? I wasn't. I know of a department store credit office where the night shift routinely passes the time by pulling up records of famous customers....
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- Employees Disciplined for Inappropriate Use of the Internet and Email
- Companies need to have clear guidelines for employees regarding computer and email usage if they want to regulate and monitor how employees use the Internet and email as well as all other communications equipment in the workplace. Many employers assume that the employers' ownership of the computing equipment and the...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- Can You Dismiss an Employee for Emailing Pornography?
- The recent Australian Industrial Relations Commission AIRC decision of Williams's v Centrelink held that the termination of Mr. William's employment for distributing pornographic emails in the workplace was justified. This paper discusses about the issues which were raises by the decision such as; Employers' potential liability for inappropriate email use...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- U.S. Court Affirms Employer's Right to Read Employees' Email.
- U.S. law gives employees few protections against employer surveillance of their workplace communications. Even without express employee consent, U.S. employers generally may listen to workplace telephone conversations, read messages sent to and from corporate email accounts, and record and disclose the contents of employee communications. Employees that bring legal challenges...
- Research articles 2004-08-06
- 5 Ways to Foil Lunch Thieves
- The top workplace etiquette complaint among office workers? Raiders of the lost lunch. A recent study found that a whopping 97.8 percent of office dwellers believed fridge thieves to be the worst offenders. The Lean Cuisine has left the building. The takeout has taken off. So...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- Electronic eyes are watching.
- More than three-quarters of 2,133 American corporations polled engage in some form of employee communications monitoring according to the fourth annual American Management Association Workplace Monitoring & Surveillance Survey. About 73.5 percent review and record phone calls, e-mail, Internet connections, and computer files. When phone logs...
- Research articles 2000-07-01
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