With more employers monitoring workers with cameras and GPS trackers, federal regulators and states have taken steps to strengthen employee privacy rights.
Some employers rely on cameras that record employees and customers throughout company property. Elsewhere, employees have GPS trackers on their company-issued phones, vehicles or wearable devices, letting the employer know where they are.
Companies use these workplace surveillance technologies to encourage productivity, discourage theft, prevent workplace violence, and protect employees, customers and company property. They also use them to make sure employees are doing the work they are supposed to be doing.
