Employee surveillance measures threaten trust and increase staff turnover – ITP.net

  • Date: 17-Dec-2021
  • Source: ITP
  • Sector:Retail
  • Country:UAE
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Employee surveillance measures threaten trust and increase staff turnover – ITP.net

VMware has shared results of a global study that revealed that the rise in employee performance and trust established as a result of new hybrid working models could be under threat from an increase in the implementation of remote surveillance measures.

A new era of work

The study, “The Virtual Floorplan: New Rules for a New Era of Work,” conducted by Vanson Bourne, found that 90% of companies surveyed in the UAE have either already implemented or are planning to implement employee surveillance measures to monitor employee productivity since the shift to hybrid working. Surveillance measures being taken include the monitoring of emails (56%), web browsing and collaboration tools (44%), as well as video surveillance 36%, attention tracking via webcams (34%) and keylogger software (28%). However, 46% of UAE companies that have already implemented surveillance measures in the form of device monitoring, and 64% of companies in the process of doing so, are seeing “drastically increased” or “increased” employee turnover.