Unit VII: Workplace Privacy

  Since we start running the race to get our first job, we unconsciously begin to provide our personal information and giving up our privacy. It begins in the recruitment process, in which we are required to authorize employers to dig into the details of our lives. Hence, the human resources department can make sure they have the profile they are looking for the position available. Employers check on from our health condition to our financial status before deciding if you deserve a place in their companies. As applicants, most of the time in need, we do not pay enough attention to all this, as we are just focused on getting the job. As a result, we agree to share our information and even to use it for further purposes.

  However, when we become part of the workforce is when we lose our privacy, and our lives begin to be part of the company's matters. In most workplaces, we are monitored while we are inside the site, and sometimes after we end our shift, through social media. The big companies and corporations have camera systems, can record our calls, emails, and so on. I think there is a fine line between having control of the employees and violating their right to privacy. This line is usually erased because we allow it by signing any documents authorizing permission to anything without realizing how that could affect us later.

  I am about to share a video in which this subject is well explained, providing information regarding the USA's workplace privacy. I am pretty sure it will be useful as it addresses the main issues of this topic.