Argu127 [shining sep作文组] 8.17

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TOPIC: ARGUMENT127 - 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 their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits."

WORDS: 463          TIME: 0:50:14          DATE: 2006-8-17

In this argument, the arguer advocates that the Climpson Industries should implement electronic monitoring of employees' internet use from their workstations. To justify this claim, the arguer provide the evidence that installing software to detect employees' Internet use can reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities. In addition, the arguer cites this system is able to prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve company's overall profits. A careful examination of this argument would reveal how groundless the conclusion is.

First of all, monitoring employees' Internet use can not prevent employees from wasting time. The arguer does not realize that without Internet, computer still has many functions.The employees can play PC games, watch movies, which are installed by DVD-ROM. Even forbidding use of computer could not totally avoid employees to spend their work hours on personal or recreational activities. Because they can read newspaper, enjoy MP3 music, or chat with each others, when the boss is absent. Moreover, it is unpractical to work without computer and Internet in this information age. So cutting the path of employees to the Internet is not a proper method of prohibiting employees' personal activities at working hours.

In the second place, the arguer fails to consider the negative effect of the software of monitoring employees' Internet use. Is this software safe to company? Would this software leak important information of company? What about employees' privacy? Before all these questions are investigated carefully, installing the software is a hasty decision. And whether this system could foster a better work ethic at Climpson is uncertain. To a certain extent, monitoring is a kind behavior of violations
of privacy. Nobody like working with surveillance. Employees would have too much press to work concentratively. In this nervous atmosphere, it is difficult to foster a good work ethic and a high efficient team.

Finally, the arguer ignore that there is no inherent consequence between installing software of detecting employees' Internet use and improve company's overall profits. Many factors can bring benefits to company, such as lowering cost, using new technology. No evidence in the argument can prove that this software really have the ability of improving company's overall profits. This result is just surmised. How much profit it can be bring, and what is the price of installing this software are indefinite.

To sum up, the conclusion lacks credibility because the vague evidence cited in the analysis does not lend strong support to what the arguer maintains. To strengthen the argument, the arguer would have to provide more detail evidence concerning the percentage of the improved efficiency after using this software. To better evaluate the argument, we would need more information regarding the cases that the software brings profits to other companies like Climpson Industries.