Do employers honestly believe that pictures of a drunk, unkempt, or an unruly employee taken and posted away from work and on a personal site are truly detrimental to business? Long before the internet came along employees drank, engaged in socially unacceptable behaviors, sometimes with one another, enjoyed using drugs recreationally, talked trash on the boss, and moaned and groaned about their jobs. Employers themselves do these things and unless one is completely naïve one knows that these things go on all the time. The only difference is now the internet provides people with a way to express themselves and share it with their friends without having to physically get together. Employers had never had the right to attend parties or a gathering of employees outside of the workplace to see what their people are up to so why do they have the right to view and use things of a personal nature simply because they’re online? Though the law currently states otherwise everything surrounding this issue cries Invasion of Privacy.

An employee doesn’t have the right to company secrets, or confidential information even if it’s put somewhere on the company website so why are employers given the right to view my personal information. Furthermore what type of person wants to know what others do with their free time? If you’re an employer focus on what your people do when they come to work, not what they do after.

Business has always been and continues to be full of hypocrisies and now more than ever employees are being discriminated against for things their employers have done or enjoy doing themselves. If employers are going to continue to ask their employees to check their personal lives at the door, employers should have the courtesy and decency to allow their employees to leave their work at the office. So long as an employee isn’t openly slandering the company he or she is employed with, an employer should have no right to take action against such persons, and from the human perspective, shouldn’t want to. Employers already get at least eight to twelve hours of an employees day isn’t that enough?

The things people do in their personal time don’t necessarily reflect their work ethic, skill, responsibility, or what they’re willing to commit to and employers would do well to remember that.

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