Employers Must Be Able to Monitor Electronic Devices They Pay For
U.S. News & World Report
2/1/2010
Mitch Danzig
"Employers provide workers with devices and give them access to E-mail, the internet, and instant messaging to make them more efficient as employees. Technology-related budgets are constantly increasing to keep up with improvements. It defies logic to say that employees should be able to send personal messages on company time and property without being subject to employer review. This is like saying that an employee can make hundreds of printouts on a company copier for free and the employer can't do anything about it. In both cases, employees are using a device for personal, not company, matters that they would otherwise pay for. Moreover, employers would lose an effective tool in assessing employee performance and work flow."
In this article, "Employers Must Be Able to Monitor Electronic Devices They Pay For," published in U.S. News & World Report on February 1, 2010, Mintz Levin attorney Mitch Danzig discusses the potential impact of the U.S. Supreme Court reversing a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Quon v. Arch Wireless.
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