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Story: Workplace surveillance boosts stress levels

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Contract of Employment

I guess the phrase that pays here is "Without their knowledge". I have recently been involved in a number of instances of employees taking the Michael. In all these cases the employees contract of employment states quite plainly that the email system is not for personal use and is to be considered the property of the employer, with all communications over it remaining the property of the employer. They all use similar wording and are all quite easy to understand. Employers that don't take these precautions don't really have much to complain about. In like vein, employees that *are* under these sorts of contracts that get caught out, really cannot complain if they try and rip off their employers and get caught. If, however, employers don't take these precautions, they are on a VERY sticky wicket. Should they monitor and potentially fall foul of privacy laws, or should they not and risk all sorts of other dangers.

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