Restrictions on personal privacy are becoming more and more common this days, both in private life and at work. Main reason is that today's technology has given managers a completely different way of monitoring the employees than was possible before. The competitive market are forcing the companies to be as cost efficient as possible and that include the efficiency of the employees. GPS, E-mail control, and video surveillance are some of the methods that could be read in the article, snooping bosses. This method to monitoring the employees has been especially popularly in the U.S probably because they are still the market that has the latest inventions in many areas.
When it comes to surveillance of the employees, I think that one should distinguish between working time and private time. You probably have read about people that have been fired because of the private life didn’t fit with the company policy. Of principle reasons I think this is wrong but I can see why managers are taking these factors of the workers under advice. For example if you have a job where your personality and the way that customers sees you are more important than the product or service you’re providing. Otherwise, I think reasonable supervision is acceptable and that studies of employees internet habits during work hours are all right. Have you paid someone to perform a task you should of course have the right to verify that the person complete their portion of the contract.
My thoughts as you can see about surveillance are quite tolerant as I can see more gain than loss in it. I think that privacy can be sacrificed to some extent. If you have not done anything, you have nothing to hide! One of the main reasons why I am so in favor of video surveillance is that we could finally nail the idiots on various sports events. This is something I long yearned for.
To summarize, monitoring of our personal lives is something we all has to be used to because apparently it’s needed if you are locking at to day’s society!
