Question about the Changing Nature of Work:

• In class I talked about something that meter readers and UPS delivery people had to carry with them. What was this?

   

• Give a benefit of telecommuting (or teleworking)?

   

• Consider either telephone operators or travel agents. Explain how and why one of these two types has been affected by the computer revolution.

   

   

• Consider three classes of employees:
  1. bottom-level employees doing physical work,
  2. top-level employees and technical employees, and
  3. mid-level employees who keep the company working.
  Which group is likely to lose their job due to the computer revolution and why?

   

Questions about Employee Monitoring:

• In the text and in class, a special point was made using the example of bathrooms and surveillance cameras. What was this point?

   

• Are employers technically able to monitor their employees' company e-mail?
  Is such monitoring frequently done?
  Is it legal to monitor employee e-mail?
  (Three yes/no answers.)