[usconservative]

Generally speaking, no. If using a company provided asset (laptop, smartphone, virtual machine, etc..) a company's EUC Policy (End User Computing) specifies behaviors that are allowd / not allowed in general terms on company provided devices.

In that EUC there would be a clause stating that all activities on that device are monitored. Monitoring includes logging of those activities and analysis of whether or not the device is being used in accordance with the types of behaviors/use cases specified in the EUC.

Any/every company worth their salt has an EUC which requires acknowledgement by an employee before they're issued a device.

[Scrambler Bob]

Thanks, I asked because of an incident my work probably 20 plus years ago.

A supervisor suspected an employee of improper, non-work releated web usage, and wanted IT to track and record him.

IT manager said, no, that is wire tapping. But supervisor could come down to IT and monitor employee in real time. (He wouldn’t/couldn’t spend the time, so didn’t.)

I haven’t checked back, but suspect that the EUC policy covers all that now.