Employee Privacy: The Nigerian Perspective

In the notable words of Warren Buffet, "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing". Businesses, Companies and Organizations must take employee privacy as important as they take customer/client privacy. This article demystifies the concept of employee privacy in light of what is expected of Employers in the workplace.

Introduction

With the global recognition of vast use of the digital space in the workplace, employee privacy has become a greater concern as more employees have turned to the Internet and other electronic media to communicate both on and off the job. Although many of these accounts may seem private, in reality employees have very little privacy.

In Nigeria, employers can generally search through anything that happens on company computers and other devices because employee privacy expectations are subjective as most times the workplace policy may cancel any objective expectation to privacy.