Tag: employee monitoring

September 27, 2023

Employers have long used employee monitoring techniques to understand what workers do all day. Reasons for monitoring run the gamut from keeping an eye out for thieves and slackers to discovering ways to improve processes, ultimately leading to increased efficiency. […]

September 5, 2023

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to move the needle on its interpretation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in favor of unions. For example, in Memorandum GC 23-02 entitled “Electronic Monitoring and Algorithmic Management of Employees Interfering […]

June 8, 2023

Many workplace concerns arose during the COVID-19 pandemic or were preexisting but were exacerbated by it. One such issue is employee monitoring. Employers normally monitor employees extensively—timekeeping, project billing, performance evaluations, etc.—but the explosion of remote work during the pandemic […]

May 29, 2023

HR tech is advancing so swiftly and having such an impact that it can be overwhelming for Human Resources professionals. In the recent HR Tech North America event, HR and workplace thought leaders helped put everything in perspective and provided […]

February 13, 2023

There are countless workplace technologies available to companies that enable them to track employees for various purposes. For example, many employers have GPS devices on company vehicles so they can track how efficiently deliveries are being made. But does the […]

January 31, 2023

Tracking technologies aimed at boosting productivity may, conversely, damage it, according to a survey of 1,000 employees and 1,000 managers by 15Five, a performance management vendor. The company found that more than one-third of managers surveyed said that monitoring had […]

October 1, 2020

For many employees, the COVID-19-prompted transition from working in the office to working from home has provided a sense of greater autonomy and flexibility. For many employers, it has created anxiety over productivity and staff supervision. This tension has the […]

October 15, 2019

Did you arrive at this article through a Google internet search for the term “employee engagement?” That wouldn’t be surprising, as the number of such searches has increased by a factor of 1,000 in the past 15 years, indicating the […]

September 25, 2019

Employee monitoring has become ubiquitous. There are numerous ways employees can be watched, reviewed, assessed, and monitored daily. For example: Using clock-in/clock-out systems Tracking GPS on company vehicles Tracking GPS on company phones with locating apps Reading company e-mails or […]

July 1, 2019

Nobody likes having an employer look over his or her shoulder all day, but many companies have a variety of methods and tools in place to monitor how employee time is spent. This monitoring isn’t simply about being a strict […]

April 25, 2019

Gone are the days when monitoring an employee’s performance was only about assessing the output or results they produced. Organizations today are increasingly focusing on the input side as well—how an employee does what he or she does, how much […]

June 28, 2016

With the need for Internet access at work, increasingly companies find that monitoring what their workers are doing during work hours is a necessity rather than a mere extreme measure of security. The addition of people who work from home […]