填空题 Many employees complain that they' re being (1) while they work during the (2) . In a new survey of more than 900 major U. S. companies, nearly (3) of them acknowledged using a range of (4) methods to monitor their employees. And up to a quarter of the companies that monitor their workforce do it (5) . The number of employees being monitored has (6) in the last five years. There are two reasons for this: first, it's (7) ; second, monitoring could be done (8) and efficiently. Most employers insist that these are (9) and even necessary business (10) . They say employers have a (11) to know how (12) they provide is being used on the job. Monitoring can also be used to deter (13) , and for the workers' own (14) .
But many attorneys are arguing that employees do not give up their (15) rights when they show up for work. Employees should always be (16) when they' re monitored. Some employees even emphasize that there should be no monitoring whatsoever in purely (17) areas. Yet, so far there is only one state--Connecticut--that (18) surveillance in areas such as locker rooms or the employee lounge. There's only one federal (19) , the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, that (20) employee privacy.