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More Employers Monitoring Workers Internet Use

More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%); excessive personal use (26%); breach of confidentiality rules (22%); other (12%).