Employee monitoring can help ensure productivity and accountability among employees, as managers can track their work progress and identify areas where improvement is needed. Monitoring enhances data security by detecting and preventing unauthorised access or data breaches and additionally, it enables you to adhere to regulatory and compliance requirements, reducing legal risks.
The key thing to remember is that workplace surveillance is perfectly acceptable, as long as you can legally justify your reasons, and it is always better to be ‘overt’, not ‘covert’.
A report shows that despite normality returning to working life post-pandemic, demand for employee surveillance software is 49% above 2019 levels.
Our eBook, ‘Employee monitoring: a guide to best practices’, provides insight from top experts in the field including:
Keith Rosser, Director of Group Risk and Reed Screening, Reed
Hayfa Mohdzaini, Senior Research Adviser, CIPD
By downloading this eBook, you will discover:
What employee monitoring is
Whether it's needed for your business
Considerations for introducing workplace monitoring
The benefits and drawbacks
Potential impact of surveillance on the workforce
Your duties as a responsible employer
“Monitoring software that employees see as intrusive and unnecessary is more likely to erode mutual trust in the employment relationship. Employers need to show how using monitoring software can benefit employees, while respecting their privacy.” - Hayfa Mohdzaini, Senior Research Adviser, CIPD
