Kirstin Gillon explores how to balance productivity and privacy with employee monitoring in the new hybrid workplace.
The past year has transformed the workplace. Employees and employers had to adapt quickly to remote working due to COVID-19 but after almost a year and a half, it’s clear that many employers want to seek out the benefits of hybrid working in a post-pandemic landscape.
Research by the BBC found that 43 of the top 50 employers in the UK are going to combine home and office working as lockdown restrictions ease.
However, with an increasingly flexible workplace comes the issue of tracking what work is done, who is completing what and who has capacity to take on more.
Why getting hacked should be more expensive Data breaches directly affect customers of businesses, but companies themselves have been getting off relatively lightly – so far. Where will
you be celebrating the third birthday of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) tomorrow (Tuesday 25 May)? A bar with privacy-enhancing booths? That restaurant where everyone eats in the dark? Or perhaps simply by offering a friend a cookie they’re not sure they want, then making them sign a series of confusing forms in order to accept it? Three years ago, the EU implemented its data protection law, which led businesses to send many millions of emails asking for permission to send billions more emails (my personal favourite invited me to “stay engaged with radioactive waste”).
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) have published a joint statement, setting out their shared views on the relationship between competition and data protection in the digital economy.
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ICO and Office of the Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand, sign Memorandum of Understanding
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and the New Zealand Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
The MOU builds on the existing strong relationship between ICO and OPC, recognising their shared common mission to uphold people’s information rights, while supporting digital innovation and economic development.
Cooperation between international data protection authorities is essential in our times of global data-driven business and this MOU builds on the strong collaboration the two authorities already enjoy as active members of the Global Privacy Assembly, which the ICO currently chairs. The MOU comes soon after New Zealand’s new privacy law has come into force, and at a time of increasing trade between the UK and New Zealand.