Employer Like Little BrotherIntroductionThe term "Big Brother" is watching you refers to how the federal government can monitor your every move if you choose. From the amount you earn and how much you pay in taxes to who you are talking to and when you are on the phone or cell phone. Now there's a new term that's becoming commonplace: "Little brother is watching you." This term refers to the way in which an employer can monitor your actions at work in an office environment thanks to the technology now available to them to monitor and read what you are doing on the company computer. And it is ironic that one of these technologies is a software program released in 1998 to monitor what the employee is doing on the company computer and is actually called "LittleBrother".LittleBrotherCreated by the company "SurfControl", it uses a database that has recorded over 45,000 Internet sites that have been placed in the productive, neutral or unproductive categories and has the ability to inform an employer if its employees work in those categories while on the job. This also includes the ability to read an employee's emails, sent and received, regardless of whether they have been deleted by the employee or not. And this isn't a technological capability that companies aren't looking for. As reported by a survey conducted by the Society of Human Resource Management in 1996. "36% of responding companies regularly searched employee messages and 70% said employers should reserve the right to do so.