With that in mind, should companies be able to track employees email and computer usage?
TN: Yes, but there are different levels. People should spend a little bit of time on the internet – look at the policies you can pick up in hundreds of different places, simple easy to use policies to fit your particular business. There is no one particular place to go, but if you put in the search criteria “small company staff policy” you will get a number of hits back that may give you templates to start. OK, this might take you a few hours, but it will give you a very good basis where you can come from and it’s a good starting point. If you are a bigger company, maybe you have 10 or 20 employees, you may have a big enough turnover, and a big enough profit margin where you can actually employ a company. Look at the company, look at what they have done, then use references to see if they have been used by anyone else, and get them in to look at your system, to do a check on your system to see how secure you are from the outside. Then you go onto some of these anti virus sites and Micr