The Internet has made it more difficult to protect intellectual property and confidential information. Indeed, given how extensively it is used at work, access has become an issue for employers.

For this journal entry, give an opinion as to when you believe an employer can reasonably expect the right to monitor employee computers.

Also, answer the following questions:

1)To what extent should employers monitor employees' computers?

2)What types of Internet activities should employees be restricted from doing during working hours? Why?

3)Do you think that an employer who has caught an employee texting excessively at work, on multiple occasions, has just cause for terminating that employee? Comment on the following case heard at the B.C. Employment Standards Tribunal: