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Business Law and Ethics  1
Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Concerns 
 Of  
Employee Monitoring
Business Law and Ethics  2
Legal, Ethical, and Managerial Concerns of Employee Monitoring
Employee Monitoring: An Introduction 
With the advancement of technology, telecommunication and communication; the era 
of Internet came into existence. The increasing use of Internet, telephones, mobiles, has 
fostered great impact on life of every individual as well as organization’s success and 
survival. In context of these changing workplace attributes, majority of employers across the 
globe are using more and more employee’s monitoring device for tracking their employees’ 
activities. Employee monitoring is defined as an act of monitoring and watching the 
employee’s action during the working hours through the use of employer’s property and 
property (Raposa and Mujtaba, 2003). Companies monitor the acts of their employees, 
through their email and phone records; reading corporate e-mails; tapping phones or 
conducting video surveillance themselves; monitoring office phone records, footages 
recorded, and others. Employee monitoring is regarded as the acceptable act as while joining 
the organization, employers or management takes authority to look into this information 
when the question related to company’s benefit or potential risk is there.  
Moreover, it is argue that employee’s monitoring is required as well as beneficial for 
the company as it helps 1) to measure the productivity, like: assessing employees-customer 
contacts over mails or telephones; 2) checking that the communication system is not used for 
personal purposes inappropriately; 3) maintaining the confidentiality so that no employees 
can leak the secrets of the company to the outsiders; 4) limiting or restricting company’s 
liability for the employee’s misconduct; 5) ensuring desire code of conduct from the 
employees.  
Despite of the good intention or objectives of employees’ monitoring, it falls into 
continuous controversies as employees regard their monitoring as distracting, stressful and 
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invasion in their privacy rights. Moreover if the monitoring of employee’s is done with the 
help of fraud, misrepresentation, or other improper methods;

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