Digital Surveillance In The Workplace

Technological progress allows employers to monitor their employees during working hours in ways that are no longer merely theoretical. Both hardware and software may be used to gain detailed information on the times, places, and manner in which work is performed. While the specific goal may be to effectively monitor workers for practical reasons, employers may still use the findings to "keep surveillance on" their employees without their consent. Either way, the number of cases in which employers deliberately use the new technical options for monitoring employees will grow in the future. The following information should provide an overview of which technological capabilities are available to employers in today's business world (also) for monitoring employees, and how their use – where it serves as deliberate surveillance of individual employees – must be handled from a legal perspective.