According to my view in this busy professional world we all are forced to leave aside our personal life. Organizations in order to keep their professional secrets are intervening inthe personal life...accessing their mail accounts having CCTV at their workstations all seems to b sometimes unnecessary.

These things highly depend on the organizational climate, environment, its security policy and nature of business.

Yes I do accept that up to some extent they are intervening in our personal life.

With Regards

Phanindra Sai A  

Attack on personal life by organisations happens for variety of reasons. Some of these might be because of employees who bring personal work to office. Lets take an example of an employee who deals in stockmarkets too. S/he would use office office net and office hours for information and transaction.

Another example is that of employees using office telephones during office hours for their personal work. Gossiping and passing comments at each other is favourate time pass of employees.

Is organisation not justified in putting a check on such employees? 

Hi All,

I do agree with all the comments you have mentioned .Even in our company we have cctv,phone tapeing,internet browsing apart form google and HR site( for me  ) I do agree that employee do gossip and do timepass in the office by useing Phones and internet.Company is justifying this but than Mgmt also have to understand employee's point of view.Employee cant work 8 hrs comtinuesly rt...

We do not have anything..like no music , no chit-chating ,cant go to anyone's workstation,cant use internet (news websits are also blocked)

Being into HR i have to do something for my employees so that they can feel motivated and perform better but unable to do so....Any suggestion on this....

Regards,

Dharni 

Hi All;

I firmly belive that attack on personal life by organisations can happen only if we the employees working in the organisation allow them to do so.

Hi All,

As an HR person, we are responsible for the discipline of the employees in the company and at the same time we need to make sure that we are demotivating people by strictly adhering to the disciplinary norms. Employees should be given a chance to balalnce their work and personal life.

we can control personal use of company's resource such as internet, computer etc, by not allowing the employees to use their machines or systems for other than work related purpose. In my company, systems are avaialble seperately in the browsing area where a register is kept for entering the time of browsing by each employee. In this way, we could control the wastage of time by employees to a great extent. Employees also will have a change from their usual work stations since this broawsing area is little colourful.

I hope this will work out for you also.

Regards,

Sangeetha

Hello All,

According to me orgnaizations interfere in to the personal lives of the employees only becasue the employees(may be very few in number) have misued the office premises in the past and hence had to opt for CCTV, tape recording etc so as to minimize that kind of conduct from the employees. The organziations are bound to do so due to the sensitivity of the data.

The solution for this could be moderation in deeds either from the employees end and from the organization end. Firstly the employees must undertand and respect the office timing and can use the lunch or tea breaks for personal time and in case of emergencies, organizations are sensitive towards the employee needs.

The employees must grow to a level where in with out any kind of mechanism they must follow the work ethic and in such case the organizations will certainly would not want to have any of these kind of mechanisms to check the conduct of the employees which is a costly affair for the organizations as well!

Warm Regards,

Gayathri

Whilst I think that some organizations have valid reasons to monitoring such activities of employees, many other organisations ruin the employee - employer trust relationship by doing this

Dear All

in my opinion its important to develop integrity and honesty in employees and it should come from inside rather then because of any thereat

Hi All,

          In an organization we need to keep watch on activities of our employees, but it does not mean that we just become only watchman for them. On the other hand their mail id which is provided by the organization must be accessed, from the empoyee perspective they also have to be carefull, because such id represent the company, which must not be use for personal purposes.

          The same will be applicable to their phones too.

          If any organization doing such activity will be helpfull to creat professional and healthy environment of the working environment.

Yes, i am also agree with the opinion that one must have to understand the company norms and do not use company's facilities for personal use. In our office also some people using internet for songs downloading, chatting, watching movies hence we block all such sites and now they can only use the official mails.

Using official phones for personal use are also controlled by fixing entitlement for using outside calls, we here in our office allot each separate land line to individual and fixed up the outside call entitlement like upto sr executive level Rs. 800/- is the monthly limit of billing excess of which shoud be answerable to the management if the excess amount is due to official calls or under misuse circumstances the excess amount would be deducted from respective individual's salary. For any personal call, individual should call from their own cell phone.

So in such way, we are controlling office facilities by personal use and also not attacking personal life in the organisation

Yes I do agree, it is a total loss of privacy. But whatever measures are taken are for the organization's interest which has the highest priority.

One should always keep his personal life away from professional life.

Regards,

Sneha.