Suppose you were responsible for developing a surveillance policy where you worked.

How would you go about setting its parameters? How would you implement it?

More than 100 million people, about two-thirds of all employees, performed some of their work outside of the office as of 2006. As laptop computers, cell phones, and other handheld communication devices make it possible for employees to do more and more work outside the physical confines of the traditional office—in transit and from home—the boundaries of work are no longer static. And increasingly, people work during hours that were once considered reserved for personal time. As of 2004, one-third of us keep in touch with work regularly outside normal working hours, and more than half of us work while on vacation.2 Meanwhile U.S. employees work longer hours: 28 percent surpass a 40-hour week, and 8 percent put in more than 60 hours a week. The 2005 Census revealed that commuting time has been expanding too; we average over 100 hours a year just going to and from work.