The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president."In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from thei

In the recommendation sent by the vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries, he states some problems with the usage of internet in the employees workstations and proposes a meassure to remedy this. While his statements and claims seem plausible, he needs to give more evidence so the arguments can be evaluated at full and analyze if the recommendation is appropiate.

First, the author says that there is a need to improve employees productivity, but there is no sign that there is a failure in this issue. If a report of production per employee were to be presented, it could clarify if there is indeed a need to improve productivity of the current employees, or if there is a need to hire more personnel or modernize the tools they use.

Second, the author proclaims that the monitoring and detection of bad use of the internet would help to reduce the hours spent in personal and recreational activities. The author should provide the data showing how many hours are spent in the internet, and how many of those hours are spent in non work-related use of the internet. And while controlling and blocking content would reduce hours spent in the internet, it does not assure it would reduce hours spent in recreational or personal activities, since there is a large range of activities that fall into this description and every employee spends different amount of time in each one. If employees would see their internet time reduced it could lead them to do other activities that could require even more time.

Finally, the author would do well to provide evidence regarding the full consequences if this recommendation were applied. Studies show that personal or recreational activities during some minutes at work hours are related to stress reduction and improved productivity. In which case this proposal would be counterproductive. Moreover, there author should give data that substantiate the claim that this meassure will improve work ethics. Furthermore, an economical study should be made in order to analyze if this recommendation would actually be profitable. If it proved to be more expensive than the hours the employees pass on the internet, this recommendation would diminish greatly.

In conclusion, while the arguments and recommendations presented by the author are plausible, there is a need for evidence in order to clarify some aspects of them and in some cases to bolster his propositions about monitoring the internet usage of Climson Industries' employees.