PRIVACY IN THE WORKPLACE A. INTRODUCTION During the past several years, there has been a growing trend among employers to monitor the actions and performance of their workers. Concerns about employee productivity, quality of work, employee theft or misuse of company property, unlawful drug use, and other factors potentially affecting employee productivity, combined with technological developments, have increasingly led employers to use new ways to monitor employee performance. A survey of 301 businesses by, Macworld, magazine …showed first 75 words of 4402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4402 total…work related purpose would seriously disrupt the routine conduct of business and would be unreasonable. Moreover, the Court noted that requiring a probable cause standard for searches of the type at issue there would impose intolerable burdens on public employers. Consequently, intrusions on the constitutionally protected privacy interests of government employees for non-investigatory, work related purposes, as well as for investigations of work related misconduct, should be judged by the standard of reasonableness ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**