As it seems, the problem itself is not just with the monitoring but that the HR department is forcing a policy on everybody. From research I have read, productivity in the office increases when the employees are able to make the policy of monitoring. If the employees had more input, I don't think this would be as major of a philosophical issue as it is.
The other problem is that too many companies have adopted a policy of monitor everything with no real reason to. I could understand starting to monitor transfers if there is a good reason to suspect something illegal going on. There is no way I would want computers I owned being used for illegal things. However, it seems a lot of companies just want to monitor everything first with no reason, and then make up a reason later. This is not just with computers but also with phone lines, cameras, etc. Of course this has resulted in several lawsuits against companies. The biggest problem it that is seriously demoralizes the employees of the company who soon no longer want to work there or just hate working there. The result is that productivity goes down seriously.
With the way a lot of companies are run anyways, it really doesn't matter much since the people in charge are too stupid to figure these problems out and why they are occuring.
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As it seems, the problem itself is not just with the monitoring but that the HR department is forcing a policy on everybody. From research I have read, productivity in the office increases when the employees are able to make the policy of monitoring. If the employees had more input, I don't think this would be as major of a philosophical issue as it is.
The other problem is that too many companies have adopted a policy of monitor everything with no real reason to. I could understand starting to monitor transfers if there is a good reason to suspect something illegal going on. There is no way I would want computers I owned being used for illegal things. However, it seems a lot of companies just want to monitor everything first with no reason, and then make up a reason later. This is not just with computers but also with phone lines, cameras, etc. Of course this has resulted in several lawsuits against companies. The biggest problem it that is seriously demoralizes the employees of the company who soon no longer want to work there or just hate working there. The result is that productivity goes down seriously.
With the way a lot of companies are run anyways, it really doesn't matter much since the people in charge are too stupid to figure these problems out and why they are occuring.
Just my opinion.