34. The vice president of 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."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The vice president of human resources at Climpson concludes that the company should implement electronic monitoring to restrict its employees’ private internet use. He assumes this policy would be helpful in encouraging productivity and work ethic by reducing private internet use. However, the vice president’s prediction is based on numerous unwarranted assumptions which lend the whole prediction falls apart.
First, the vice president unwarrantedly assumes that no use of private internet use automatically improve the working hours. It is admittedly suggested that the employees have used...
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