Employers have a keen economic interest in ensuring that
employees keep operational information confidential and spend work
time completing necessary tasks efficiently and effectively. For
this reason, employers have an inevitable need to monitor the work
of their employees. At the same time, monitored employees also have
a relevant need to protect their privacy and human dignity. These
two opposing interests make setting boundaries an important part of
fostering a positive work environment that meets the needs of both
employers and employees.
Employers will often aim to control employee behaviour at the
workplace, which nowadays is becoming increasingly difficult to
completely separate from private lives. From time to time employees
might send private e-mails from corporate accounts or browse the
internet on office computers during work hours. Regardless of
whether employees do this with malicious intent or at the expense
of their job performance, an employer's
