Employer as Little BrotherIntroductionThe term "Big Brother" is watching you refers to how the federal government can monitor your every move, if you so choose. From how much you earn and how much you pay in taxes to who you're talking to and when you're on your phone or cell phone. Now there is a new term that is starting to become common, "Little Brother is looking at you." This term refers to how an employer can monitor your actions at work in an office environment thanks to technology now available for the employer to monitor and read what you do on the company computer. And it is ironic that one of these technologies is a computer software launched in 1998 to monitor what the employee is doing on the company computer and which is actually called "LittleBrother". LittleBrother Created by the company "SurfControl", it uses a database that has recorded over 45,000 websites classified into productive, neutral or unproductive categories and has the ability to inform an employer if its employees work in these categories during their work. This also includes the ability to read an employee's emails, sent and received, whether or not they have been deleted by the employee. And it's not a technological capability that companies aren't looking for. As reported in a survey conducted by the Society of Human Resource Management in 1996. "36 percent of companies surveyed regularly searched for employee messages, and 70 percent said employers should reserve the right to do so."..