Criterion C

Criterion C

Privacy has become a huge concern to the average employee, as he is being monitored by their managers or people who have access to monitor them. This problem addresses the social and ethical issues of privacy and productivity.

“Is my employer legally allowed to see what is on my workstation?” Is a common question which people ask and the answer is: Yes, since he has the right to monitor anything that is being done in his network hence he the right to monitor you (Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, 2006). It is vital that the employees have their privacy and have their right to do what they desire. This is because, businesses also have to look out whether their actions are ethical or not, because how could they attract a costumers or even more employees with unethical company behaviour, like abusing the privacy of others.

Companies are deliberately monitoring their employees because they want to see their productivity rate go up. It is true that after employee monitoring software’s have been placed in companies the productivity rate of the average employee has gone up (Schulman, 2001). The problem is that the employee’s well-being will drop and if that drops then the Well-being of the hole firm will drop, thus causing a problem with the lack of motivation and even though the productivity is going up the problem is that the quality of the work will drop, and in businesses the quality is much more important.