Electronic Monitoring Vs. Health Concerns

Electronic Monitoring vs. Health Concerns


     Is privacy and electronic monitoring in the work place an issue that is

becoming a problem?  More and more employees are being monitored today then ever

before and the companies that do it aren't letting off.  While electronic

monitoring in the work place may be the cause of increased stress levels and

tension, the benefits far exceed the harm that it may cause.

     Employees don't realize how often electronic monitoring happens in their

work place.  An estimated twenty million Americans are subjected to monitoring

in their work place, commonly in the form of phone monitoring, E-mail searches,

and searching through the files on their hard drive (Paranoid 435).  A poll by

MacWorld states that over twenty-one percent of all employees are monitored at

work, and the larger the company, the higher the percentage (Privacy 445).

Unaware of this electronic monitoring, most employees often are not working at

their peak performance due to this type of scrutiny.

     The majority of Americans believe that electronic monitoring should not

be allowed.  Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis states that of all of the

freedoms that Americans enjoy, privacy "is the right most valued by civilized

men (Privacy 441)."  A poll taken by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman for Time, states

that ninety-five percent of Americans believe that electronic monitoring should

not be allowed (Privacy 444).  Harriet Ternipsede, who is a travel agent, gave a

lengthy testimonial on how electronic monitoring at her job caused her undue

stress and several health problems including muscle aches, mental confusion,

weakened eyesight, severe sleep disturbance, nausea, and exhaustion.  Ternipsede

was later diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (Electronic

446).    A study done by the University of Wisconsin found that eighty-seven

percent of employees subjected to electronic monitoring suffered from higher

stress levels and increased tension while only sixty-seven percent of thos
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