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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 --- 91 days ago http://ohmygov.com/blogs/on-the-horizon/archive/2008/07/08/to-employee-from-empl
 Increasingly, companies are firing employees for misusing the Internet at their workstations, where employees violate company policy. Will the trend extend to government workplaces? A recent survey by the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute reports that a quarter of employers have fired someone because of email misuse, and an additional third have fired an employee due to other kinds of Internet misuse. Thus over half of all companies have fired an employee for using the Internet inappropriately on (or through) the job. From this, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a business interest in limiting Internet access. After all, the more time an employee spends violating company policy, the less work he is completing and the more chance an important client will walk in on him violating company policy. (Think one hundred times worse than when your mom walked in on you ‘violating company policy.') The Bill of Rights, remember, does not protect individuals from private intrusion, but only from governmental interference. Because you have rights, the government cannot punish you for uttering an obscenity at the top of your lungs in your place of work (unless, of course, you work in the ear trauma ward of a hospital). However, the way your private employer punishes you for the outburst is another thing. Your first amendment rights mean nothing to him. Legally speaking, liberty is a subjective thing. The ... |
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