Working In A Fishbowl

Working in a fishbowl is the title of this photo designed to illustrate concepts and issues dealing with privacy issues in the workplace. In this picture a woman sits in front of a desk and computer monitor and glances nervously over her shoulder. She and the desk are inside of a fishbowl, around which stand four executives who are ostensibly keeping a close eye over the woman's work habits. The question becomes one of just how much right to privacy do employees have?

Rights To Privacy In The Workplace

The advent of the Internet age begs the question: Do modern day employees have a right to privacy when they are at work? This is an increasingly important question as networking, wireless technology, and work at home schedules all facilitate the abuse of business resources and make it all the easier for corporate bosses to spy on their personnel. This is difficult issue for human resource departments, new hires, and even tenured workers. Such an important issues needs visual communication...which is where this woman working in a fish bowl comes in to play. The executives surrounding the woman can be watching for cyber crime, industrial espionage, or inventory theft. They can just as easily be finding outstanding individuals who need to be rewarded...only the headline can tell us for sure!

Under Scrutiny: Transparency In The Workplace

This woman,working under scrutiny (in a fishbowl), provides a humorous and compelling visual representation of excess invasion of privacy for employees. The image was crafted to work in horizontal, vertical and square formats with ample copy space for text and headlines. The group of "suits" surrounding the fishbowl can be a citizen watchdog group, a board of directors, or even a grand jury. This is an image about transparency in business, about excesses of supervision, and about sound management policies. Is this watchdog committee justified, or are they participating in a shady if not criminal exercise in a violation of human and/or civil rights? There are issues of freedom, leadership, security and more illustrated in this photo of business in a fishbowl. This is also a photo of business stress.