“The Extent of Systematic Monitoring of Employee E-mail and Internet Use” — a study whose time has come. Summary: your boss is spying on you, but not as frequently as you think.

Over the past few years, employee monitoring has been increasing about twice as fast as the number of employees with Internet access. The online workforce in the U.S. as measured by Nielsen//NetRatings has grown by about 33 percent per year, to 40.7 million employees using the Internet in January 2001 from 30.6 million in January 2000.

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