With social networking and other electronic communications making employees’ actions and attitudes more visible than ever to employers, it’s clear that a big change in the relationship between work and private life is well underway. Yet little research has been undertaken to understand organizations’ use of that information, or how the potential for increased monitoring and surveillance is perceived by workers. My colleagues Dr Brian Cooper from Monash University and Dr Rob Hecker from the University of Tasmania and I have just conducted a survey to understand workers’ awareness of employer policies and the current state of what they consider to be fair and reasonable. We polled a random sample of 500 working people in our own country, Australia.