Is your boss watching you?

Are 'mind-reading' hats or helmets for workers the top of a very slippery slope when it comes to workplace monitoring and privacy abuse? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/30/mind-reading-tech-used-monitor-chinese-workers-emotions/ Not only does constant monitoring have huge potential to cause stress, any benefits are suspect and the whole process dehumanises workers even further. There are better ways to find out how your employees are feeling and certainly better ways to engage the workforce and lift productivity.

While the article highlights a pretty extreme example, how happy are you with the way your organisation approaches workplace monitoring?

  • My Husband worked somewhere similar. They had CCTV in the office area where it wasn't necessary. The Director would call my Husband the minute he started to clear his desk for the day and be called in for nothing that couldn't have been dealt with earlier in the day. They eventually employed a HR professional, who immediately asked for the CCTV in non essential areas to be removed. This didn't happen and the HR professional left the business very quickly, as well as my Husband!