Surfing the Internet at the Workplace Could Land Some Employees on the Unemployment Line

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Event Date(s): 07/12/2000 | Description: Point of view shot of people working at their cubicles on computers seen. Worker answers a telephone. Point of view shot inside an office, dissolving to a shot of a computer seen. Shots of"vault.com" Internet web site seen. In interview Mark Oldman says"Ninety percent of all employees are surfing non-work related sites during the workday. Over 30 percent of employers are actually restricting or monitoring their employees' e-mail use." Man works at computer desk. Close up of hands typing on keyboard, and panning to monitor showing Internet web site for"websense.com" seen. Computer monitor with insert logos for Xerox, The New York Times, and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) seen. Roulette computer game seen. Lewis reports on camera. Web site www.whitehouse.com being typed seen. White House web site (whitehouse.gov) seen. Whitehouse.com pornographic web site home page seen. In interview attorney for police officer who was fired for accidentally going into the Whitehouse.com web site, Everett Bobbitt says"My argue was that, number one, it's a violation of his right of privacy that even in a computer owned by the employer, when there's no rules, putting the employee on notice, that's like my desk drawer or my pocketbook or my briefcase, that you've gone too far." Bobbitt sits at desk and looks at documents. Canon Information Systems receptionist seen. James Underwood sits at desk and uses computer. Websense web site seen. In interview Underwood says"Mainly, it's not to prevent them from using sites such as eBay or buying tickets online, that kind of stuff. Mainly, it's to enforce corporate policies about adult sites, gambling, drugs." Oldman says"Companies themselves are rushing to implement policies. Some of them are tacit, are not open to their employees. If a company's going to clamp down on Internet use, it must let its employees know exactly what the ramifications are." Point of view shot of workers at cubicles seen. Dissolving clips of signs"In God We Trust" and"court", and justice scale seen. Point of view shot of workers at cubicles seen. Unemployment line seen. Woman works on a computer. Lewis signs off in voice over (no location).