A company has a printed policy stating it will not read employees e-mail.
Employees have password-protected voice mailboxes.
Laura defined privacy Laura P. Hartman as control over what others can come to know about you. Issues of privacy in the workplace are not new, she explained, citing early 20th-century practices of industrial giants like Ford, but technology makes the issues more complex. Technology also blurs lines between professional and personal lives and allows employers to expect more of workers. There is an appropriate balance between the two. The balance is ethical.