Ethics: Emails vs Workplace

Privacy is important to everyone, but when you're in a business where professionalism is a must, this may affect personal privacy. Of course employees will consider their e-mails to be confidential and not be subject to the monitoring by their employers. On the other hand, the employers' justify their monitoring to be a way of preventing theft, fraud, and other illegal conduct. Not only that but they also monitor e-mail as a way to assess job performance, productivity, and efficiency.…