M O N I T O R I N G I N T H E W O R K P L A C E T H E B Y W O R D
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echnological advances
are helping many
employers to monitor
their workforce in increasingly
sophisticated ways, whilst at
the same time, public attitudes
towards individual data privacy
are hardening. Two important
drivers of these changes came to a
head in 2018 – the advent of the
General Data Protection Regulation
(GDPR) in Europe and the public's
changing perception towards the
way certain social media outlets,
such as Facebook, handle privacy.
The effects of these
developments are coming into
sharp focus in workplaces
worldwide with indications that
employees are becoming less
likely to accept unwarranted or
unexplained intrusions than ever
before. Our research analyses
the rules on monitoring in the
workplace in 41 countries and
examines how the law is coping
with the growing tensions
between new technologies and
the strengthening of privacy rights.
M O N I T O R I N G I N
T H E W O R K P L A C E
An international perspective on
a changing environment
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Employees are becoming less
likely to accept unwarranted
or unexplained intrusions
than ever before
