Electronic surveillance and monitoring and the workplace

[mandy]

Employees who regularly use company computers to surf the Web, sign on to business accounts for personal e-mail, make calls from company phones or use the corporate car to run errands run the risk of losing their jobs, according to a new survey released by The ePolicy Institute and the American Management Association (AMA).

More than 58 percent of the 304 companies surveyed said they'd fired workers for misusing company-provided e-mail accounts or improper use of the Internet on a company computer. A much smaller portion, 6 percent, said they had terminated an employee for inappropriate use of a company phone or voice mail.

"The reason employers are concerned about workplace e-mail Internet activity is legal liability," said Nancy Flynn, executive director, The ePolicy Institute. "We have found that that's the No. 1 concern of employers..

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