Employees' Private Lives and Employers' Rights

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This paper shows that, while employers have some very valid reasons for checking into the backgrounds and private lives of employees, there is a point where employers just get nosy. It is these kinds of inquisitions that most people object to. This paper hypothesizes that most employees or prospective employees will not object to having basic information about them checked out, but employers that actively spy on their employees during their off hours go too far.

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"It was with this concern in mind that many employers began to take more of an interest in their employees' private lives. It was not so much an interest in them as people, but rather an interest in whether they were going to cause problems for the company at some later date because they had some habit or hang-up that many people would find morally objectionable. The interest in what employees did during their time away from the company became a subject of concern simply because employers became worried about getting into problems by being associated with a certain kind of person."

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