Ask for a copy of your company's policy on employee monitoring. Better still, quiz your colleagues in the information technology department about how the company checks up on workers. Beware of spouting off. Remember that your employer may track down the authors of anticorporate diatribes, even when posted pseudonymously on the Internet. Know your rights.
Many workers mistakenly believe their privacy is constitutionally guaranteed.
Interestingly, government employees have more protections than those working in the private sector. World Report Inc. All rights reserved.