Monitoring Employees: How Far Is Too Far?

We had already seen an increase in the number of employees working from home, but that has accelerated as a result of the Pandemic. Many employers are asking themselves, "what are my responsibilities for employees whilst working from home from a health and safety perspective?", "Can I monitor their working practices whilst at home?"

Employers will need to tread very carefully when it comes to monitoring employees' working patterns more closely because getting this wrong could be a serious breach of data protection legislation and be damaging for the company's reputation. It is unlikely to be enough cause to introduce workstation style monitoring simply on account of an increase in home working due to the Covid-19 pandemic.