Law Technology

Workers Fired for Internet and E-mail Abuse

By Michael Arkfeld

2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey: Over Half of All Employers Combined Fire Workers for E-Mail & Internet Abuse.  "NEW YORK - (Business Wire) From e-mail monitoring and Website blocking to phone tapping and GPS tracking, employers increasingly combine technology with policy to manage productivity and minimize litigation, security, and other risks. To motivate compliance with rules and policies, more than one fourth of employers have fired workers for misusing e-mail and nearly one third have fired employees for misusing the Internet, according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute. . . . "

Full post as published by Electronic Discovery & Evidence on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).