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One-Third Of Companies Monitoring Email
dotpavan writes "While studies have shown that spying on workers tends to make them less productive, that hasn't stopped approximately 1/3 of all U.S. companies from employing email monitoring tools. 43% of those companies employ staff to check outgoing emails. This seems like quite a waste. While there are some times when it makes sense to monitor emails (or it's required by law), most of the time, this seems like a complete waste of money. Not only are you upsetting workers and decreasing productivity, the benefits are pretty hard to spot. The number of "problem" emails tends to be incredibly low. If someone really wants to send out inappropriate emails, they're going to figure out some other way to do so, such as via a free webmail account somewhere. Yet, the companies are buying up expensive tools and hiring staff to watch just in case they catch the one or two problematic emails that go over the corporate network."
Not only are you upsetting workers and decreasing productivity, the benefits are pretty hard to spot.
Indeed. To take a parallel example, although 100% of Slashdot articles are monitored (and corrected in detail) this just seems to upset the "workers" and has had not improved productivity.
Dir Sir or Madaam: Your post has been rejected by our new email/post monitoring system. The reason for rejection is as follows:
Improper usage of "there," please replace the offending word with "their."
Good day, Your Corporate Email/Post Monitor
Error: Sig not found.
Anyway, she does in fact have a colleague named Dick. He doesn't get a lot of email.
The WW2Online forums had a classic forum manglement for the longest time, and it kept hitting everyone right in the midst of detailed nitpicky discussions like if the bolts on a Panzer IIIF tightened clockwise or counterclockwise.
:)
I've got the dobody fluidmentation here that says it was clockwise
Followed, of course, by a half a dozen sniggering posts.
"documentation" as "do***mentation"
Wait, how did documentation gain an extra letter in there?
>> hack up a macro
:-).
heheh. Thanks for the idea. I'll write it on company time next week
http://request-header.info
If the search/replace is badly written enough to touch words it should leave alone, who's to say it won't bugger up the spelling while it's at it? ;)
People called Richard being unable to use their abbreviated name?
Why? I thought Rich was only a four letter word in communist countries...
-- Is "Sig" copyrighted by www.sig.com?
You mean this type of union?
union myUnion {
float wages;
float hours;
}
Offtopic, but funny...
The World of Warcraft forums censor the word cockroach, which is an ingame pet:
Oh man, I love my new %$#@roach... He follows me around everywhere.
I currently have no clever signature witicism to add here.