1. According to Shaw, the general proposition that a firm has a legitimate interest only to behavior that significantly influences work performance does not carry over to, and does not apply to off-the-job-conduct.
2. According to Shaw, both in the workplace and in general, one of the dimensions to privacy is that we want to control intimate or personal information about ourselves and not permit it to be freely available to everyone.
3According to Shaw, in support of the use of polygraph tests to determine when people are telling the truth, Psychiatry Professor David T. Lykken has incontrovertibly shown that polygraphs are extraordinarily accurate and cannot be beaten.
4. Shaw writes that, according to the American Management Association, it is rare for employers to record employees' voice mail, e-mail, phone calls, or for employers to review employees' computer files, and only about 5% of employers are known or believed to engage in this practice.
5. According to Shaw, with the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act, the prime responsibility for regulating working conditions passed from the federal government to the states and U.S. territories.