Employee surveillance kills workplace culture dead

In our post-pandemic world, flexibility, telecommuting, and work-from-home have morphed from being the luxurious arrangement for a fortunate few into a non-negotiable expectation of a large proportion of office-based workers. Rolling lockdowns have proven the naysayers wrong; our team members can be productive when working remotely. However, with this new-found employee freedom from workplace shackles has come a push by many employers to increase their surveillance of staff through a range of technologies - high tech methods that inform management about productivity. Such surveillance is often poorly executed and can be highly destructive, breaking trust and confidence. Indeed, it begs the question - is the inevitable cost to culture a price too high for sleuthing organisations to bear?