Learn what constitutes workplace monitoring and how to protect yourself.

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Workplace monitoring has many legal and personal implications for employees, and you should be aware of them. Today I'll tell you about the different types of monitoring.

Monitoring in the workplace is legal under certain circumstances, and while there are general rules about monitoring, there is also a lot of room for interpretation by the courts.

Today, there is a lot of debate about how widespread workplace monitoring actually is. Some surveys, such as those conducted by the American Management Association, found that 78 percent of US firms monitor employee communications in some form, with about 47 percent of them checking employees' email. However, another privacy group, the Privacy Foundation, estimates that 15 percent of businesses monitor employee email and 19 percent track Web usage.

Regardless of the actual number, what is probably true is that any particular patterns detected by one of these systems can tip off an employer to do a more detailed investigation. So while most businesses are not monitoring all of their employees all of the time, it is probably the case that it is more targeted based on certain reasons for them to monitor an employee in the first place. Therefore, simply calling attention to oneself is cause enough for further monitoring.

Today, there are three main ways of monitoring employees.


  1. Electronic
  2. Video
  3. Telephone


Nand Mulchandani is CTO of Oblix.


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