2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey

clipped from workforce.com I get a lot of surveys sent my way in the course of a week. Most of them aren’t all that surprising or newsworthy. This one was different. Here’s the headline that grabbed my attention: More than half of all employers have fired workers either for e-mail or Internet abuse, according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from the American Management Association and the ePolicy Institute. It went on to list these other highlights from the study: • 66 percent of employers are monitoring Internet connections. • 45 percent of employers are tracking content, keystrokes, and time spent at the keyboard. • Another 43 percent store and review computer files. • Of the 43 percent of companies that monitor e-mail, 73 percent use technology tools to automatically monitor e-mail and 40 percent assign an individual to manually read and review e-mail.

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