Question

Your company does not want its employees to use the Internet to exchange personal e-mail during work hours. What is the best tool to use to ensure the company does not violate an employee’s right to privacy?

Answer 1

There is a way that you can implement to prevent employees to use Internet to exchange personal e-mail during work hours: Use of monitoring tool for IT admins and people and let employees sign the consent. Most common misinterpretation when employers use monitoring tools to see if their employees are violating their policies is privacy issues. This is wrong. Monitoring tools are needed for safety of both parties (company and employees). For employees, they could use these as an evidence that they are really following the rules and not violating anything. As for employers, this is their safeguard against violators.