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New Kind of Snooping Arrives at the Office: Corporate executives are becoming increasingly aggressive about spying on their employees, and with good reason: now, in addition to job shirkers and office-supply thieves, they have to worry about being held accountable for the misconduct of their subordinates.
Even one offensive e-mail message circulated around the office by a single employee can pose a liability risk for a company. [...]
Margaret Blair Soyster, an employment lawyer in New York with the law firm Clifford Chance, says that employers should have a written policy advising employees that their e-mail messages are not private but can be read by their supervisors, that the technology they use at work belongs to the company and that the company reserves the right to monitor the computer activities of employees.