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GO! FOR JOB SUCCESS Discussion: Personal Software Use Your instructor may assign these questions to your class, and then ask you to think about them or discuss with your classmates Businesses spend millions of dollars a year on software costs and updates. As an employee of a company, you may bo issued a company notebook computer to travel with. If you are issued the computer to take outside of work, does that give you the right to use it for nonbusiness tasks? What types of restrictions might a company put on personal software use? f the company computer has software on it that you don't have on your computer, is it OK to use the software outside of work hours and save your files on your own flash drive? FtolEdhar/Fotolia

Answer 1

1. No, an employee is not supposed to use any company resource, be it the computer to use it for nonbusiness tasks. Most of the companies usually put this in the Offer Agreement and any violation of it could lead to consequences like immediate firing.

2. Some of the orgamizational policies for Employee Personal Use of Business Equipment are:

• Email and other computer files provided by the company are to be used for business purposes only.
• Use of computer facilities for personal reasons is strictly prohibited (or, personal use may be permitted subject to approval).
• Employees may not use computer files or software brought from home or other sources on the business computer (to avoid viruses).
• The company reserves the right to enter, search, and monitor the computer files or email of any employee, without advance notice, for business purposes such as investigating theft, disclosure of confidential business or proprietary information, or personal abuse of the system, or monitoring work flow or productivity.
• Software or other business information on the computer should not be copied and taken from the business premises without permission.

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