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Sunday, January 26, 2020

Short Article: Bosses using tech to spy on staff is becoming the norm, so here's a realistic way of handling it

Title:
Bosses using tech to spy on staff is becoming the norm, so here's a realistic way of handling it

Author:
Douglas Bamford

Published:
Tech Xplore, 24 January 2020

From the article:
"Workplace surveillance sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but we are having to get used to it. In a sign of the times, the European Court of Human Rights has just ruled that a supermarket in Barcelona was entitled to fire employees after catching them stealing on CCTV cameras that they didn't know were installed. This overturned a decision by the court's lower chamber that the cameras had breached the employees' human rights.

Yet hidden cameras are almost quaint compared to some of the ways in which employers are now monitoring their staff."

To read this article:
https://techxplore.com/news/2020-01-bosses-tech-spy-staff-norm.html