Computer Privacy at Work

Come on who are you kidding? There is no such thing as computer privacy at work. It is work, not home; this computer is not here for your personal use. You are supposed to be using this computer just as you would any other equipment at work. A train engineer would not use his train to take his kids to school, just as you should not use your computer at work to forward that funny email to your sister-in-law. With more and more software options becoming available to help the employer spy on their employees, surfing the internet for your personal use at work is just not something you should consider a wise thing to do.

There are all different kinds of software out there designed to give the employer an eagle eye view of the activity of any computers on their corporation’s network. There is software that can detect when a personal email is sent, who sent it, where they sent it from, which they sent it to and what was sent. Employers can monitor the use of a single computer or they can monitor all activity on all computers. There is software employers can use that will send an alert to their own computer when a prohibited action is performed. Therefore, never use a work computer for any personal activities.