Workplace surveillance: examining current instruments, limitations and legal background issues
Working life is increasingly characterized by strong tendencies towards control and surveillance of employees. To control and monitor employees, employers may take diverse surveillance instruments into consideration: examples may be time-tracking and access control systems, e-supported systems l...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Algarve, ESGHT/CINTURS
2013-01-01
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| Series: | Tourism & Management Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://tmstudies.net/index.php/ectms/article/view/547/961 |
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| Summary: | Working life is increasingly characterized by strong tendencies
towards control and surveillance of employees. To control and
monitor employees, employers may take diverse surveillance
instruments into consideration: examples may be time-tracking
and access control systems, e-supported systems like chip cards,
RFID (radio-frequency identification) chips, human implants,
various biometric systems, computer surveillance, network
monitoring software, GPS tracking, telecommunication, visual and
Internet monitoring, as well as surveillance of detective agencies.
Reasons for employers to monitor employees’ behavior are
manifold: from an avoidance of malicious insider threats, the
prevention of image damage, increased productivity, and through
to reduced costs. This work starts with a fictive story of an
employee, followed by a short presentation of surrounding
viewpoints of organizational control and surveillance. The main
part of the paper focuses on an analysis of currently used
monitoring instruments and the Austrian legal framework of
employee surveillance and related privacy issues. |
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| ISSN: | 2182-8466 |