It was quite an interesting topic which the authors of “Snooping Bosses” addressed. My first reaction and thought was that the bosses who snoop to that extent on their staff must truly be short of work…and that from now on I will be more careful regarding what I do on the web during work hours.
I don´t know what one should think of the fact that employers often snoop and monitor their staff. From privacy aspect is this of course a negative thing that an employer so easily can monitor what her/his staff do during work hours.
Of course one could argue that at work it is the bosses business what the staff does, as one of the bosses in the article did. I can agree with this but what I question is which course of action one is taking to monitor and to guarantee that the employees work at work and don´t kill time by surfing the web for example.
If the employer notices that his employees are less efficient than usual she/he could start by having a conversation with this employee rather than snoop as a first procedure.
I think that this discussion is similar to that which addresses if and how one should, for example, videotape public places and so on. As I have understand does the ones that are for this argue that it is a safety measure and that it could help solving crimes etc.
I think that it also comes down on a individual level and weather one argue that to be monitored in one way or the other is a violation on ones right to privacy or if it could be a good thing, one procedure that could make that people behave in a “proper” way or at least to make it easier to detect actions which are inappropriate.
