IntroductionNew technological advances have helped employers use new forms of employee surveillance. Eighty percent of employers at large companies have participated in a survey on surveillance of their employees. Employers in four admitted to regularly monitoring their employees. They participated in reviewing their employees' emails, voicemails, and telephone conversations (Evans, 2007). However, in some cases, when employees became aware of the surveillance, they felt there had been a violation of their privacy rights. Employee monitoring could fall under the human resources organizational structure. The human resources department of an organization has the responsibility of hiring new employees, providing and developing appropriate training to ensure that employees follow proper procedures within the company. At the supervisor level, the supervisor has the responsibility to monitor the employee's activities to ensure that the employee is correctly following the employee handbook that should be located at the company's work site. Depending on the level of professionalism, the monitoring of said employees may be carried out in a professional manner. However, if ethics training is poor, supervisors may abuse the practice. Monitoring employees through various active agents at work can open a company to ethical and legal issues as well as litigation. This paper will address the ethical concerns that employers have in monitoring their employees, the privacy rights concerns of employees, the legal concerns related to employee surveillance and a solution that addresses these concerns, training to employee ethics. Ethical concerns In any business, ...... middle of paper ...... oring. H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship | Florida Business School. Retrieved April 29, 2011 from http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/jame/employeemonitoring.htmNichols, N., Nichols Jr., GV, & Nichols, PA (2007). Professional ethics: The importance of teaching ethics to future professionals. Professional Safety, 52(7), 37-41. Retrieved from EBSC ​​http://ezproxy.library.capella.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.library.capella.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=25788919&site=ehost- live&scope=sitePalm, E. (2009). Expectations of confidentiality at work: what is reasonable and why?. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 12(2), 201-215. doi:10.1007/s10677-008-9129-3 c3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl #db=aph&AN=36965989