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Drug Testing in Employment Drug testing in companies has become a bigger issue than most realize. According to a survey taken in DesJardins and Duska article, nearly half of all Fortune 500 companies were planning to administer drug tests to employees and prospective employees by the end of 1987. Americans have been told that drug use in the workforce is common and that workers who use drugs will harm their businesses through increased accidents and absence, or through more faint effects of decreased efficiency and productivity. Before we break down drug testing in the workplace, we must make clear that workplace drug testing is different from drug testing in other settings. DesJardins and Duska state that, “we view the employer-employee relationship as essentially contractual.” Meaning that unlike a relationship between siblings and their parents, this relationship is voluntary. In a relationship such as this, there are certain areas where the employee can keep private and the employer cannot touch. DesJardins and Duska say that, “the employee has a right to privacy.” Now to say that drug use in the work place will harm a companies business through increased accidents and absence is a strong argument. However