One such company, Hubstaff, implements random screen capture that can be customized for each person and set to report “once, twice, or three times per 10 minutes,” if managers so wish. There is no shortage of digital tools for employee monitoring - or, as privacy advocates put it, “corporate surveillance.” Multiple services enable stealth monitoring, live video feeds, keyboard tracking, optical character recognition, keystroke recording, or location tracking. The fear of productivity losses, mingling with the horror of massively declining revenues, has encouraged many leaders to ramp up their employee monitoring efforts. With that transition having happened so rapidly, employers are left wondering how much work is actually going on. These statistics were gathered before the coronavirus pandemic, which has made working from home a necessity for thousands of companies. A year later an Accenture survey of C-suite executives reported that 62% of their organizations were leveraging new tools to collect data on their employees. A 2018 Gartner report revealed that of 239 large corporations, 50% were monitoring the content of employee emails and social media accounts, along with who they met with and how they utilized their workspaces. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter.Įven before Covid-19 sent an unprecedented number of people to work from home, employers were ramping up their efforts to monitor employee productivity.
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