Employee Monitoring at Work
Employee monitoring at work
Outline:
Evolution of employee monitoring
Why do employers monitor their employees?
Workplace Privacy and Employee Monitoring
Types of employee monitoring ▪ New way of monitoring
Successful implementation of the monitoring system
The Law
Monitoring shouldn’t go too far
My perspective conclusion Evolution of employee monitoring For many years, organizations have engaged in many practices in order to monitor their employees for the intention of control and compliance, employers also need to be sure that their staff are behaving properly because they are liable for the actions of their employees. Employee monitoring is the act of watching and monitoring employees’ actions during working hours using employer equipment/property. In the past, the practices of monitoring the employees during their jobs were done manually and required self-reporting for tracking the employees ' productivity and performance, but with the developing of technology and the increased number of automated activity in the workplace, many of theses technologies were automated to enhance the tracking and monitoring capability in order to improve the employee 's performance of the job. These advancements have generated practices and policies which leveraged the new electronic monitoring capabilities and led to the gathering of vast amounts of information about employees.
Monitoring the employees at work has created an ongoing fight between the employees and their employers; the main thing that they have fought about is computer and email monitoring. These tools provided the employers with many ways for capturing the employee 's performance and conducting surveillance. As result of the continuous possibilities in monitoring, anxiety in employees increase, which in most cases leads to illnesses. Studies indicate that employees who are constantly being monitored at work suffer from inevitable effects, the majority being illnesses such as
Outline:
Evolution of employee monitoring
Why do employers monitor their employees?
Workplace Privacy and Employee Monitoring
Types of employee monitoring ▪ New way of monitoring
Successful implementation of the monitoring system
The Law
Monitoring shouldn’t go too far
My perspective conclusion Evolution of employee monitoring For many years, organizations have engaged in many practices in order to monitor their employees for the intention of control and compliance, employers also need to be sure that their staff are behaving properly because they are liable for the actions of their employees. Employee monitoring is the act of watching and monitoring employees’ actions during working hours using employer equipment/property. In the past, the practices of monitoring the employees during their jobs were done manually and required self-reporting for tracking the employees ' productivity and performance, but with the developing of technology and the increased number of automated activity in the workplace, many of theses technologies were automated to enhance the tracking and monitoring capability in order to improve the employee 's performance of the job. These advancements have generated practices and policies which leveraged the new electronic monitoring capabilities and led to the gathering of vast amounts of information about employees.
Monitoring the employees at work has created an ongoing fight between the employees and their employers; the main thing that they have fought about is computer and email monitoring. These tools provided the employers with many ways for capturing the employee 's performance and conducting surveillance. As result of the continuous possibilities in monitoring, anxiety in employees increase, which in most cases leads to illnesses. Studies indicate that employees who are constantly being monitored at work suffer from inevitable effects, the majority being illnesses such as
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