Employee Espionage Is the New Disturbing Corporate Trend
Employee tracking software is borderline criminal
Massive companies are deploying invasive employee surveillance software that some have called “workplace tyranny.”
Under the guise of productivity and metrics, they watch your every move, right down to tracking your geolocation and keystrokes. The creators of the apps describe it as “employee monitoring.”
I call it borderline criminal.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to condemn all companies for all employee monitoring. Instead, it is written from an editorial, personal, and cautionary point of view.
What Is Employee Espionage?
Put simply, employee espionage involves a company monitoring its employees.
This intrusive surveillance is typically operationalized as video monitoring, audio recording, and/or keystroke tracking software.
What this means is that a company can access your webcam, view your internet history, and even record every time you click one of the keys on your keyboard.
There are real legal cases where companies fired employees after snooping on their whereabouts during off-hours (a time when it’s none of the company’s…
