Over one in four companies invested in technology to passively track and monitor their employees during the pandemic. It’s a controversial move, with employee privacy at the heart of the issue, but ...

On 3 October 2023, the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published new guidance on workplace monitoring. The previous guidance was issued in 2011, as part of the ICO’s Employment Practices ...

Most remote workers may not have as much privacy as they might think while doing their jobs from home. At the start of the pandemic, when virtually all white-collar professionals were sent home from ...

An employee monitoring system uses surveillance tools to track workers’ activity and promote productivity. There are several methods employers can use to check on their staff. With these tools, ...

The U.S.' top worker lawyer plans to crack down on businesses' ability to spy on their workers. In a Monday memo, the general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board urged the board to disallow ...

The monitoring of employee bathroom breaks, once considered beyond the scope of workplace oversight, has emerged as a contentious practice in modern business operations. This shift reflects broader ...

Enterprises should only be able to digitally monitor and surveil employees with their explicit consent, according to a select committee report on the impacts of connected internet of things (IoT) ...

Digital surveillance in the workplace became a growing concern for many workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a reported increase in use of productivity monitoring tools to track staffers working ...

Things may not always run smoothly in the workplace and bosses and workers may not always see eye to eye on many things. But there may be another “threat” in town: remote employee monitoring. In some ...