U.S. are using them, they must be effective. Forecasts reveal that by the year 2001, eighty percent of these same companies will be utilizing monitoring as well. About twelve percent of the companies said they do not notify their employees of the monitoring activities. Lastly, the American Management Association (A.M.A.)survey shows that twenty eight percent of the companies that participated in the poll said that they have dismissed workers due to violations detected by the monitoring. The results from the studies conducted by the A.M.A. certainly show that every move you make at work might just be watched by "big brother". Not everyone is an advocate of using monitoring systems at work. In fact some, managers and employees, are completely against them. Nay Sayers argue that it promotes a negative sense of trust between employees and employers. Some feel that the employers have too much control over them and that they are an invasion of privacy. They general feeling amongst these people is that a sense of dissension is created when utilizing such practices. Research also reveals that stress is more predominant in enviroments that use these systems, vice those that do not use them. Some feel that because of these reasons, the use of monitoring equipment produces negative results at work. Still, others just want to be alerted of such procedures and feel that as long as companies have set procedures in writing, they are alright with it. Some lobbyists are campaigning for the elimination of monitoring altogether. Regardless, the majority of management personnel and business owners feel that the current laws are set up to support them and that there policies have precedence over the made to some how even the tables.There are certain restrictions to what management and employers can and cannot do. Federal law does allow unannounced monitoring for business-related calls, however; certain state laws require that the phone parties be inform...
