what if you don't have a roommmate? What if your roommate could care less? I'll grant you that I am dealing with people's personal and academic information, not medical, but I've looked at HIPAA and it requires you to take all reasonable precautions. Only. To my mind, not allowing employee A to telecommute because employee B and C may want to do so also and they have a shared living situation with roommates who may or may not even be home during working hours is going way far beyond that. In any case telecommuting should be a case-by-case basis; people should demonstrate that they can get work done and not lose critical work items, for a start...
>I'm not saying I completely agree with the idea. But those are reasons I've >been given in the past. From a corporate stand point, the CYA side will come >into play. The company makes itself vulnerable by allowing some people to >work in an area that may not be secured. Say you are on the phone discussing >something, and you have it on speakerphone, and your roommate walks by and >hears somebody talk about something that may be covered under HIPPA. The >company and you are now criminally responsible for the leak of private >patient health information. > >I hate the word, but in some places it is that "Slippery Slope" argument. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:230989 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
