Employees engaging in social media activities or exchanging personal e mails from their company-issued laptops should now be more careful than ever before.
Computer professional and experts have now cautioned all employees about their employers who now have the right to inspect the laptops and the data of all the employees they have under suspect.
The decision was made despite a recent court case which believed that all employees have privacy to certain extent from their employers.
This was stated as one of the employees from a company had made use of her personal email account to confer with her attorney.
The case is believed to be unique and does not at any point state that employers across the globe have no legal right to individually check through the personal communications of the employers communicating from their corporate machines.
In a telephonic interview, Gilbert Leong, the partner of Rodyk and Davidson LLP stated that the New Jersey case was mainly a client-attorney issue.
Also, the entire communication was kept confidential between the client and the attorney.
He stated that according to the law, employers have full control over their workspace and that the employees are given resources to complete their duties rightly.
Hence, employees in the workplace should never expect of having privacy in the workplace.
Consequently, all employers have the right to any time inspect the company machineries as well as its data.
Discussing about the issue, Ken Chia, the associate principal working at Baker & McKenzie stated that he advises all his clients to clearly state into their employee handbooks that the firm has full authority to access its staff's communications that also includes their personal email accounts and any entry into the various social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook.
However, Microsoft against the other professional companies believes that exchanging personal emails from the company machines is fine.