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How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time
By RANDALL STROSS
Published: December 30, 2007
WERE Henry Ford brought back to life today, he would most likely be delighted by the Internet: the uninhibited way many people express themselves on the Web makes it easy to supervise the private lives of employees.
In his day, the Ford Motor Company maintained a “Sociological Department” staffed with investigators who visited the homes of all but the highest-level managers. Their job was to dig for information about the employee’s religion, spending and savings patterns, drinking habits and how the worker “amused himself.”
Home inspections are no longer needed; many companies are using the Internet to snoop on their employees. If you fail to maintain amorphous “professional” standards of conduct in your free time, you could lose your job.
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Read the rest at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30digi.html?ei=5070&em=&en=083ac408f897c472&ex=1199163600&pagewanted=all
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