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Electronic employee monitoring reaches an all-time high
Even as more companies are requiring employees to return to physical offices at least some days a week, remote monitoring of employees has increased 30%, according to new data.
“Surveillance may seem like a solution for improving efficiency, but it’s clearly eroding trust and morale in the workplace,” said Lauren Hendry Parsons, ExpressVPN’s Digital Privacy Advocate. Watching employees too closely can actually make them more likely to break the rules, because they feel like they have no control over their actions, said David Welsh, a professor at Arizona State University who researches organizational and behavioral ethics. To make monitoring work without causing productivity and attrition problems, “businesses should focus on fairness, trust, and giving employees a sense of control,” he said.
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