Monitoring or Spying on Employees?

It is important for employers that employees should work efficiently and contribute to the success of the company. I do not think anyone is going to argue with that. One of the things that employees might potentially do is waste their time sending non-relevant email. Of course, this does not contribute to you company’s success, and is considered a time waster. The employer can always say that the computers belong to him, so that he has the right to see what his employees are writing, but recently employers also want access to any mobile text messages being sent. What about the privacy of people? It seems that privacy is not the biggest concern in the 21st century. However, these days people value their privacy a lot. I think that many might not mind their employers having access to their email account, but full access to their mobile phone might be an exaggeration. While sending irrelevant email messages might take workers some time, text messages are usually very short and take only a few seconds to send. Very often you might just want to tell your children to get something for lunch or tell them some other important things. I think that sending very short messages should be allowed, because after all we are human beings with families. Everybody should have the right to have a few minute break at work to talk to a family member, or send a short message if there is something important to say.