Big Boss is looking over your shoulder

18 January 2016 - 02:17
By Farren Collins

Just because you're allowed to take your work laptop home, or set your own screensaver on your office PC, it doesn't mean that whatever you do on that computer is private. Your bosses are allowed to monitor and check anything you do on or with company property.A man in the UK found that out the hard way when he was fired for sending private chat messages to his fiancee, The Telegraph reported last week.

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