Employees in public settings enjoy less private latitude than colonizers do

Evidence

There is nothing startling in the assertion that employees utilize their places of employment for private purposes-whether that place of employment happens to be a public setting or not. Work places are commonly locales in which romances bloom and friendships form; in which troubles are aired and counsel is given, and in which personal letters are written and personal phone calls are received. The extent to which any place of employment may be used for such purposes varies, of course, depending upon the type of work site, attitude of employer, amount of slack time, and so on. One thing is clear, however: employees in public settings (the only work site of concern here) are considerably more restricted in their pursuit of private purposes than are colonizers. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 726