Case study

(Conflicts over privacy in workplace)

1. Companies should have the right to track employees through company

smartphones and monitor their personal Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Companies monitor their employees to ensure that no harm is being done
within the workplace. A professional business wants to be viewed exactly
that way; professional. If an employee makes statements that are
malicious or harmful to the employer’s business reputation, this could
potentially lead that employee down a very difficult path due to the
social media privacy laws put into place. Companies are not allowed to
request or demand personal account login information from employees.
The only reason an employer should have access to an account is if, and
only if, a potentially legal issue within their policy reaches the surface
and needs direct attention.
When a company monitors an employee’s social media accounts like
Facebook and Twitter, they are not only protecting themselves, but their
employees as well. It is important to be aware of what your employees
are posting on the Internet because posts can travel so fast via the web
that it could potentially promote or destroy a company within minutes.
Therefore, a company needs to define proper terms and procedures to ensure which
activities can be performed by its employees. Then the company can look after the
employee's actions did their social media accounts; otherwise, the company has no
right to obtain the employee's personal information and data.

2. Employees should be able to maintain their personal privacy and

not be tracked through their company smartphone or their
Facebook and Twitter accounts.
On the other hand, employees argue that they have a right to not track
their personal privacy. Employers have to be careful about what
information is found on an employee’s social media account. Employees
have the right to keep private facts about themselves confidential and the right to
some degree of personal space. In that case, company’s employers must be trust
their employees. But all employees have "reasonable expectation of privacy"
when they use employers equipment. Basic workplace right extend to every
employee, and these include rights to freedom form discrimination, fair
compensation and privacy. Employees have right to privacy in workplace applies
to workers personal items, as well as storage lockers and private email accessible
only by employees. Employee’s personal lives are their right and when they
disturbed, it creates conflicts in workplace and employee’s interest as well.
For resolve that problem, company’s employers should be used of cameras in
every department of an organization rather than track the personal privacy of
employees. Employers must be trust their employees because trust is the key of
success of an organization.