“A Study on Employee’s perception on Employee Monitoring”
Shivani Mp, Ainish DCunha, Dalmas H. Nelson · Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research · 2021
Employee monitoring is a long-debated topic. Employers argue that monitoring is their way to protect business interests while employees would say that it’s a breach of privacy. On the whole, it involves many legal and ethical issues at the core of which lies technology and its use. There are many articles in view of both sides and some looking into the resulting effects. In this paper, we focus on the perception of employees about employee monitoring and to what extent is it ethical for employers to monitor their employees. Our study of 122 sample respondents found that the majority of employees are fine with being monitored with technology, and even prefer it to physical monitoring, but employees are overall wary about the security of their private data in the hands of the employer. Thus, this paper attempts to find the balance between employee monitoring and ethics.