$50,000. For weeks, this programmer would disappear into his office and produce almost nothing. The CEO installed Silent Watch, which is a way to watch the actions of the programmer on his computer. After installing this, the CEO discovered he was watching porn and sending and receiving sexually explicit e-mails, which is actually illegal to do at work. Every day that the programmer came into the office, the company was wasting a significant amount of money on him to produce nothing. The CEO wrote after this scandal, "without the electronic monitoring software, many more weeks might have been stolen while the management tried to discover why no work was being done" (Ariss 555). Computer monitoring saves hours of time weaving out the slackers. In the book Responsible Communication, they quote an article by Angel who states, "computer monitoring makes the workplace consistently predictable, thereby eliminating uncertainty for workers. Furthermore, computer monitoring helps in identifying underperformers and coping with their denial" (Jaksa 113). Computer monitoring is one of the only ways employers know for sure their employees are doing their job in a timely manner and keeping the