CS 492/CS 692 W09 Role-Playing Exercise 4

Electronic Monitoring

Team A

A group of business executives who feel that it is necessary to be closely monitoring all the electronic communication (email and browsing activity) of their employees, in order to ensure worker productivity and security of business "secrets".

Team B

The leaders of an employee organization who feel that electronic monitoring leads to feelings of mistrust and ultimately lower productivity from employees in an organization. They advocate the gathering of information by employers on a need-to-know basis only, to protect employee privacy.