Big Brother in the WorkplaceBig Brother in the WorkplaceBig Brother in the WorkplaceIntroductionIn today’s society there are many reasons for surveillance, one of which is to monitor the workplace. Companies can monitor employees’ phone calls, monitor emails, and check their behaviors. According to the American Management Association more than 75% of big corporations do some kind of electronic surveillance on the people who work for them. 63 percent of them monitor Internet connections. 43 percent track telephone use. And just about 20% check on computer use, such as who is logged on or keystroke counts (Bock, 1). Surveillance of the workplace has shined some light on the reality of employees’ behaviors and actions during business hours. Whether these actions and behaviors are positive or negative, surveillance of employees allows for management to view work ethics and habits of employees throughout the day. Use of surveillance in today’s society is a “must,” considering the vicious crimes and conspiracies as well as wasting time and money by employees on the job.

BackgroundSurveillance has come a long way in the workplace. Employee’s every moves are monitored, their emails are monitored, and even their phone calls are sometimes monitored. For some employees they feel as if they have no room or freedom from their employers because of the restrictions that surveillance in the workplace puts on them. Some argue that this hinders an employees’ work ethics and attitude toward their job because they feel they constantly have someone looking over their shoulder.

On the other side, people feel as if surveillance is a great innovation that has helped employers cut down on theft, wasting of time, property protection, productivity, liability issues, and most important of all the safety of employees. These problems have grown immensely in the past few years, and surveillance is the only solution that has opened employees’ eyes to the problems they face. Surveillance has been very advantageous to companies across the world, by making employees stay on track with their workload, and by upping security in the workplace.

First Major Topic (Types of Surveillance)Companies have the ability to use multiple methods of surveillance to watch over an array of actions taking place in the workplace.Many companies today have the ability to use multiple methods of surveillance to watch over an array of actions taking place in workplace. Companies use multiple types of surveillance to monitor their employees. One of the biggest types of surveillance that is starting to effect views and ideas on surveillance is the monitoring of employees’ emails. Every day this is becoming a bigger and bigger issue. Many times when an employee gets bored of his/her work, they immediately turn to their communication through email. This is something that needs to be monitored because many employees simply waste time writing personal emails that end up being pages long. The writing of these emails could lead to conspiracy or even planned theft from within the company.

Many companies today have the ability to use multiple types of surveillance to watch over an array of actions taking place at work. Many companies use multiple types of surveillance to monitor their employees. Several companies have started using the various monitoring methods that can be found in the privacy of their employees. These surveillance may include

• Allowing for one set of employees to track both their employer and employees individually. • Monitoring the work environment and providing users of the site with the information that has been requested by the other employees (such as photos, videos, etc.) • Monitoring users or users’ personal data online (e.g. credit card, bank or other type of information).

The following is an example of a typical company who use other methods of surveillance to monitor their employees.

What is the purpose of this monitoring process?

You can view the monitoring of these employees as a way to increase their confidence in the information provided by the company. However, this kind of monitoring will not lead to any increased level of compliance, just a decrease in their confidence in that information to be made available to the management.

What will happen if a company doesn’t receive notifications?

If you’re not familiar with how to manage your company’s data storage, read the following article from the May 2010 Annual Report of NASDAQ® [NASDAQ:NDAQ:NDAQ:NDAQ:NDAQ

What kinds of data do employees get tracked?

What’s the main cause of this tracking?

Many data analytics people don’t want to think about anything that could lead to this type of data being used in other ways. Instead, they are going to look outside of business, law, and government to look at it. While the privacy and security of our customers won’t be compromised, employees are taking steps to find out other methods of tracking them.

The most obvious way of using this method is to take the steps described in the last post, which focuses on the business logic of the use of this monitoring method to maintain trust among customers.

Example 1: The Company’s Data Store

In an attempt to control whether employees get tracked, some customers may have set up an account in an employee data storage program that collects personal information about them. Since employers have set up similar systems within their company it is very possible that individuals may be looking at information and monitoring it.

Employees want the company to have access to their personal information, not have access to their employers’ employees data. The company does not want to have employees data, since employees may be able to access the personal information it has collected and stored.

Example 2: The Employee Data Management System

The Employee Data Management System (EDMSS) may be implemented as a single file within a company and users may add and remove documents and content. Data provided by members to the ECS may be accessed and tracked by third parties using different methods or to other employees who choose them.

Once the information is processed, the data will be sent to the company’s internal server. The company will ensure that employees’ personal information is returned to an appropriate level.

The company doesn’t want to have employees data, because it has already collected some of the personal information that it had previously collected. The company does not want to have employees data, since it doesn’t have the company’s internal servers to store it.

Example 3: The Data Warehouse

Many companies today have the ability to use multiple types of surveillance to watch over an array of actions taking place at work. Many companies use multiple types of surveillance to monitor their employees. Several companies have started using the various monitoring methods that can be found in the privacy of their employees. These surveillance may include

• Allowing for one set of employees to track both their employer and employees individually. • Monitoring the work environment and providing users of the site with the information that has been requested by the other employees (such as photos, videos, etc.) • Monitoring users or users’ personal data online (e.g. credit card, bank or other type of information).

The following is an example of a typical company who use other methods of surveillance to monitor their employees.

What is the purpose of this monitoring process?

You can view the monitoring of these employees as a way to increase their confidence in the information provided by the company. However, this kind of monitoring will not lead to any increased level of compliance, just a decrease in their confidence in that information to be made available to the management.

What will happen if a company doesn’t receive notifications?

If you’re not familiar with how to manage your company’s data storage, read the following article from the May 2010 Annual Report of NASDAQ® [NASDAQ:NDAQ:NDAQ:NDAQ:NDAQ

What kinds of data do employees get tracked?

What’s the main cause of this tracking?

Many data analytics people don’t want to think about anything that could lead to this type of data being used in other ways. Instead, they are going to look outside of business, law, and government to look at it. While the privacy and security of our customers won’t be compromised, employees are taking steps to find out other methods of tracking them.

The most obvious way of using this method is to take the steps described in the last post, which focuses on the business logic of the use of this monitoring method to maintain trust among customers.

Example 1: The Company’s Data Store

In an attempt to control whether employees get tracked, some customers may have set up an account in an employee data storage program that collects personal information about them. Since employers have set up similar systems within their company it is very possible that individuals may be looking at information and monitoring it.

Employees want the company to have access to their personal information, not have access to their employers’ employees data. The company does not want to have employees data, since employees may be able to access the personal information it has collected and stored.

Example 2: The Employee Data Management System

The Employee Data Management System (EDMSS) may be implemented as a single file within a company and users may add and remove documents and content. Data provided by members to the ECS may be accessed and tracked by third parties using different methods or to other employees who choose them.

Once the information is processed, the data will be sent to the company’s internal server. The company will ensure that employees’ personal information is returned to an appropriate level.

The company doesn’t want to have employees data, because it has already collected some of the personal information that it had previously collected. The company does not want to have employees data, since it doesn’t have the company’s internal servers to store it.

Example 3: The Data Warehouse

Today the largest method of surveillance used is the monitoring of internet use. Companies monitor what sites employees connect to as well as what type of games, shopping, etc. that they do on the World Wide Web. Most of any time wasted in the workplace is due to the use of the internet. Most companies now have a firewall or some sort of protection set up that prohibits employees to log onto certain websites. As shown in Picture 1, 63% of enterprises that monitor the use of company equipment and systems is the monitoring of the internet.

Another form of surveillance that is not as commonly used is the monitoring of phone calls. Most times when this is used, it is primarily used when there is an incoming or outgoing call. When employees make a phone call outside of the office it is normally taped for security purposes. Many times one who is not even an employee will have their call monitor. Normally, most companies that have a customer service number to call will tell you before you talk to an associate that your call may be monitored.

There are also computerized systems that monitor employees. These systems can be used to track many different actions. It can track the number of keystrokes an employee does, the number of errors an employee makes, and/or the number of customer service calls and the duration of those calls. This type of surveillance does not necessarily contribute to the monitoring of the good and bad actions of employees, but it does exist in the workplace.

Video surveillance is one of the most useful forms of surveillance around, because it allows employers to watch employees interactions with customers and