Employers: Be careful about viewing employees' personal text messages.

Employee privacy in the workplace has become an increasing thorny issue over the last 10 to 15 years as the methods by which employees communicate with each other and the outside world have multiplied and become more complex.  It used to be that privacy issues at work had to do with whether an employee had an expectation of privacy in their workplace locker or on their phone conversations.  Now employers have to be concerned about blog postings, chat rooms, email, Twitter, instant...

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[Source: HR Lawyer's Blog]