I've seen this get out of hand. I was fired from a company for a number of pops the appeared when I went to a site.
The pop ups were of a pornographic nature. No amount of explaining would convince them otherwise.
As it was late and I was the only one in the office, I had no witness. After much legal wrangling I dropped it and just walked away.
There is always this type of potential problem when content is not filtered at work. I'm all for letting employees surf as a stress reliever, but they must be protected against potential legal issues in the eveny they view something that is not in accordance with their policy.
I have recently left a company that does these background search of employees, which have become very common. Banks and the like do VERY through search going back as far as 15 or 20 years.
They have in the past used information you have given them that may be incorrect or misleading as en excuse to fire you.
I found it unsettling that we were calling peoples neighbours and university lectures to check up on these people.
But, saying that, we uncovered a number of people who were wanted on a variety of crimes ranging from petty theft to murder, who had just skipped to a different country/state. For this reason I can see some merit, but it has all been going a little to far lately and I am worried what new screening procedure they might adopt. I am already forced to take AIDS and drug test for the company provided medical insurance.
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I've seen this get out of hand. I was fired from a company for a number of pops the appeared when I went to a site. The pop ups were of a pornographic nature. No amount of explaining would convince them otherwise. As it was late and I was the only one in the office, I had no witness. After much legal wrangling I dropped it and just walked away. There is always this type of potential problem when content is not filtered at work. I'm all for letting employees surf as a stress reliever, but they must be protected against potential legal issues in the eveny they view something that is not in accordance with their policy.
I have recently left a company that does these background search of employees, which have become very common. Banks and the like do VERY through search going back as far as 15 or 20 years. They have in the past used information you have given them that may be incorrect or misleading as en excuse to fire you. I found it unsettling that we were calling peoples neighbours and university lectures to check up on these people. But, saying that, we uncovered a number of people who were wanted on a variety of crimes ranging from petty theft to murder, who had just skipped to a different country/state. For this reason I can see some merit, but it has all been going a little to far lately and I am worried what new screening procedure they might adopt. I am already forced to take AIDS and drug test for the company provided medical insurance.