The new staff members in the Hoffman Construction in Portland, Oregon, the receipt of a written, personal use of the Internet during working hours. The policy provides, inter alia, that the company control over the activities of employees.
They have the policy before they access, said Brian Muir, network and system administrator.
Surveillance of employees using the Internet is a weapon in the fight against the loss of productivity, according to Lewis Maltby, president of the National Institute for travaillonsR茅seau.
However, Maltby said that the surveillance is morally reprehensible, because it penetrates the privacy of employees and is an inefficient, in order to prevent abuses.
The Internet is a nightmare for the observation of privacy, there is not long by the employer, Maltby said categorically.
Maltby dewy no idealist. A lawyer and former Executive Vice President of the company’s technology, it was agreed that the misuse of the Internet is a serious problem in organizations.
It’s like a coffee, which can be extended to hours and hours, he said.
You can never be a solution that would not have lived if I have been in the business, said Maltby.
In fact, this can cause problems, he said, citing a theoretical example.
In those days, people do not go with the opinion Dear Abby – go to the Internet, he says. Say, it’s a woman to beat at home and it comes to work and access to a website sitefor help. If anyone of software for monitoring the use and speaks in the dining room, around the world together May n, and perhaps not even his mother said.
In this case theoretical Maltby said the company is not only the lack of respect and injured an employee of the opening of a difficult part of his life for others, but also to increase productivity. In fact, May, a difficult situation, increasing productivity.
Not everyone, of Maltby, of course.
The surveillance and the limits to their employees have the right, over the Internet, it seems to me entirely logical and practice of corporate social responsibility, security and trust perspectives , saidMark Holcomb, director product marketing for N2H2, Inc. the software from Hoffman Construction Muir feel.
Holcomb said that not only the loss of productivity of the misuse of the Internet, but also the danger of a breach of security, be it within the company or outside.
Holcomb also noted the issue of liability. A common concern is heard, for example, that sexual harassment can lead to complaints, if a man of the company uses the Internet connection on the lookout atpornography and a woman who sees and feels that it is shocking.
Maltby is not much credibility in the justification for the surveillance.
Responsibility for sites pornos are too high, said Maltby. The law is clear: Anyone who is offended should focus the attention of the employer and the employer give achance to resolve the problem. The company is only liable if they do not rectify the infringement.
What are you doing?
Maltby, if he considers that the employees of the monitoring problems of ethics and business, there is a solution, he says. The first part of the solution is a policy of hardness. Holcomb agreedfully Maltby and the necessity of such a policy, even if this policy remain Maltby surprisingly rare in the business world.
Real control by controlling the behavior before it happens, not after, he said.
With a strength there, you can use the software for access to the policy, according to Maltby.
Maltby, Holcomb Muir and the need for strong political support and the ability to access, because only then about the need to monitor the Internet activities of employees. It was Muir said Holcomb and the right to remain in the company to follow, if necessary.
With the introduction is of the opinion that the provision of software that allows access to certain sites at certain times of day.
The issues of management and the ethical questions are not identical but are closely linked, said Maltby. What is more effective in the eradication of violence and what is in compliance with the privacy and morality theemployee be the same.
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