Case on drug testing

Life Systems, Inc.
Interoffice memorandum

To Maria Tonti
From Nitara Condon

Subject Opinion on office drug testing

I’ve read the email concerning your new drug testing policy for employees at Life Systems Inc. I feel that this policy should not become a part of our corporation for certain reasons.

Opinions
Manufacturing specialized medical machinery is extensive work and needs immense attention and concentration from our employees to build these products at Life Systems. Being under the influence of any kind of drug on corporate grounds would obviously hinder our employees, making them less efficient and less focused. This would lead to a detriment in our products. I use the word would for a specific reason because I have received information that our company has not had any issues concerning drugs on corporate grounds so far. Since there has not been a problem I feel that there is no reason for drug testing. I believe that if drug testing is added to our corporate policy, it will create more problems for something that was not a problem in the beginning. It will increase expenses for ourselves and make it harder to find new people to hire.

Life Systems Inc. has an unsurpassed reputation because of its advanced technology and reliable machinery which we want to uphold. Customers would like the idea of a drug-free working environment because it gives the customers that much more assurance that the products they are buying are assembled well. This would boost our reputation even more. But in the same affect it may also affect our reputation negatively. If drug testing is introduced to our policy at Life Systems we may find hidden secrets which may hinder our reputation. We also might have to fire some of our most reliable and efficient employees, including managers. Our reputation is how Life Systems gains and keeps their customers. If they knew that people they have worked with for years got fired because they were using drugs, our reputation will slip and we might lose customers which would in turn affect our income.

If the drug policy is implemented our company is portraying the idea that our employees are health and law abiding. This may help people quit drugs. But most of the time addicts do drugs for the rest of their lives no matter what the consequences are. Drug testing policy does affect the business but it also affects the lives of employees. If we enforce the drug testing policy we are digging into people’s lives, telling them what they cannot do on their own time. It is going against the bill of rights and the natural rights of people and our employees could have harsh reactions to that. If our employees are angry with their situation at work, their performance will be affected in a negative manner. This in turn will affect the product which affects the customers since the product is not produced in the same manner. Clearly this will affect our production rate, lessening our company’s income.

Recommendation
I believe that enforcing a drug policy in our company, with the standards that we have the testing set up now, will affect the company in a negative manner. Everything that I have state ends up in affecting our income and without income there will be no money to run the company resulting in losing the company. I recommend that employees take a drug test knowingly before they get the job and after that do not receive another drug test. The present employees should have to do the same, take a drug test once. This way, future employees know what they are getting into before they apply for the job and present employees lives will not be affected causing the corporation to be affect negatively.



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