Privacy matters

A rise in employee surveillance accelerated during the pandemic. However, we are also more accustomed to being watched. We accept cameras in novel spaces such as doorbell cameras, webcams and smartphones. We accept data tracking on websites and assume that our information is used.

Yet, despite the possibility that monitoring is becoming more accepted, people still don't like the nature of surveillance. The solution to maintaining increased productivity and remote work is to trust employees and discard the spyware.