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The Human Rights Impacts of Workplace Monitoring Technology
The Human Rights Impacts of Workplace Monitoring Technology
Employers are using keystrokes, webcam photos, and screen capture to monitor remote workers’ productivity but can they do it in a rights-respecting way?
The monitoring of employees by employers is not a new phenomenon, but it seems to be entering a distinctly new phase.
Today, it is increasingly common practice for large companies to implement employee monitoring, whether to increase productivity in warehouse distribution roles, maintain quality control in manufacturing, or bill accurately at consulting firms.
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the sudden move of many millions of workers around the world to home-working and this has accelerated the use of tools designed to monitor workers in new and even more invasive ways that respond to the unique conditions of a pandemic. Techniques such as screen capture, measuring keystrokes, webcam photos, and web monitorin
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25 January, 2021 Health care workers and patients in the temporary area outside Steve Biko Academic Hospital created to screen and treat suspected COVID-19 in Pretoria, South Africa. Alet Pretorius/Gallo Images via Getty Images
The coronavirus has been dubbed a “great equalizer” that is blind to âman-made diversity.â That may be true at the most basic level, but the resulting crisis has not affected us all equally. The pandemic and its aftermath have and will be experienced differently by the Global North and South.