Technological advancement has made email privacy a significant problem, since employers can hack their employees email accounts and check their email messages and chat. Nevertheless this should not be the reason, employers to jeopardize employees’ privacy. Email messages hold personal and private information, which requires means, no one allowed to spy on the information in the email. Employers need to respect employees’ privacy to keep them motivated to work (Jennings, 183).
Employees like other human beings have privileges, which must be respected. Employers should not exercise their powers by trying to hamper with the employees’ private life. Even though the resources used belong to the company that does not give them the right to pry and exceed the employer-employee boundary (Jennings, 184).
According to Jennings 185, email messaging is more or less like mailbox letters. An employee using office mails for letters receives the letters sealed and not tampered. Email messages should be given the same treat. As technological growth and development has replaced the use of mail letters to email messages, thus privacy is highly recommended on the side of employees. A policy should be put in place, when an employer is complaining on wastage of resources by the use of email messaging instead of hampering with their privacy and personal life.
Respect a virtue in any organization setting employing someone as an employee was respecting enough towards that person. Maintaining privacy is a way of showing respect towards employees, checking employees email is being nosy and disrespectful towards the people involved. Email messaging used by employees for business and personal use interfering with the email may result to the employer discovering sensitive information that may be of personal significant to the employee.
Jennings 190 suggested that, employers should not be allowed to hamper with employees email as this may lead to disrespect and disloyalty on the part of employees. Employees have legal rights too; they have the right of privacy life while at the work place, reading their mails should be taken as an offence and crime. All employers ought to allow privacy of personal life in the workplace, thus; the employees email should not be read.
Work cited
Jennings, M. Business Ethics: Case Studies and Selected Readings. Ohio: Cengage Learning.
2008.
