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A Threat to Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace Annotation. Opening sentences provide background for thesis. As the Internet has become an integral tool of businesses,company policies on Internet usage have become as common aspolicies regarding vacation days or sexual harassment. A 2005study by the American Management Association and ePolicy Institute found that 76% of companies monitor employees’ use ofthe Web, and the number of companies that block employees’ access to certain Web sites has increased 27% since 2001 (1). Unlike other company rules, however, Internet usage policies ofteninclude language authorizing companies to secretly monitor theiremployees, a practice that raises questions about. | MLA Research Paper Orlov Orlov 1 Title is centered. Opening sentences provide background for thesis. Thesis asserts Orlov s main point. Summary and long quotation are introduced with a signal phrase naming the author. Anna Orlov Professor Willis English 101 17 March XXXX Online Monitoring A Threat to Employee Privacy in the Wired Workplace As the Internet has become an integral tool of businesses company policies on Internet usage have become as common as policies regarding vacation days or sexual harassment. A 2005 study by the American Management Association and ePolicy Institute found that 76 of companies monitor employees use of the Web and the number of companies that block employees access to certain Web sites has increased 27 since 2001 1 . Unlike other company rules however Internet usage policies often include language authorizing companies to secretly monitor their employees a practice that raises questions about rights in the workplace. Although companies often have legitimate concerns that lead them to monitor employees Internet usage from expensive security breaches to reduced productivity the benefits of electronic surveillance are outweighed by its costs to employees privacy and autonomy. While surveillance of employees is not a new phenomenon electronic surveillance allows employers to monitor workers with unprecedented efficiency. In his book The Naked Employee Frederick Lane describes offline ways in which employers have been permitted to intrude on employees privacy for decades such as drug testing background checks psychological exams lie detector Marginal annotations indicate MLA-style formatting and effective writing. source Hacker Somrners Boston Bedford St. Martin s 2011 2007 . This paper follows the style guidelines in the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 7th ed. 2009 . 5 11 _A Orlov 2 tests and in-store video surveillance. The difference Lane argues between these old methods of data gathering and electronic surveillance involves