GMAT AWA

“Companies should be prohibited from monitoring e-mail correspondence of their employees, since this policy destroys the atmosphere of trust and undermines employee morale.” From your perspective, how accurate is the above statement? Support your position with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
YOUR RESPONSE:
The above statement says that companies should not monitor email correspondences of their employee as it destroys the atmosphere of trust and also undermines employe morale. I believe that in normal circumstances companies should surely prohibit from monitoring email correspondence of their employee. But under some cases this monitoring become necessary.Every human being needs some break from work to refresh his or her mind and to feel fresh. For that, somebody sitting in the office might send some personal email to his/her friends or to family members. It will surely not affect the work or output. In contrary, it will refresh the mind of the employee and he or she would probably deliver better output. On the other hand if company starts checking each and every mail than will be breach of privacy of an individual. Many a times email might have some confidential information such as bank account details etc. So under normal circumstances company should probhit from monitoring email, and hence create an atmosphere of trust in the organisation.However, sometimes it becomes important to monitor email correspondence. For instance, when performance of an employee is below average or when employer become suspicious about employee activites / moments or when some employee is caught in some controversy. For example, if from some source company got to know that an employee is leaking company's data, then that person's email correrspondence should be monitored. At the same time company can have some softwares to check if any person is opening porn sites in the offices or sending company's confidential data to outsider. But I believe that under normal circumstances email should not be monitor. It could affect an employee's morale.