How employee monitoring is communicated
Of those who are monitored and have been informed, some felt pressured to accept the monitoring measures by their manager. This again makes it all the more important to communicate the measures accordingly. If monitoring is used to contribute to a better employee experience and greater job security, this should also be communicated.
Pressure from employees to accept employee monitoring
It is a good sign that the majority of employees (68%) say that the monitoring has not made the work environment more or less unpleasant than before. For 23%, the work environment has become more unpleasant, and for 9%, it has even become more pleasant.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Employee Monitoring
Companies that do not adequately inform their workforce about monitoring measures run the risk of employees assuming the worst about how their employer uses the data collected. For example, 36% of employees monitored in our survey think that an employee monitoring system has been put in place to check that work is being carried out at the specified times. However, monitoring measures can also bring benefits to the workforce.
We asked employees from Germany (monitored and unmonitored) what advantages and disadvantages monitoring has or would have for them. Most (67%) think that employee monitoring is generally negative for the company. The greatest concerns are perceived in the following areas:
Invasion of privacy 65%
Negative impact on trust 63%
More stress for staff 51%
Negative impact on work morale 51%
Employees feel pressured to work longer hours (e.g. not taking breaks to which they are entitled and/or working overtime) 50%
Increased stress among employees and trust issues are consequences that employers need to be aware of when implementing monitoring measures. The benefits of employee monitoring should balance the negative aspects.
These are the most commonly perceived benefits of employee monitoring:
Employers have a better overview of who is doing a lot or little work 42%
Employers have better insight into daily business operations 41%
Errors can be detected before they become serious 38%
The company has work certificates for employees (increasing my job security) 29%
Managers can more easily distribute work tasks based on employees' workload 29%
It is interesting to note that many perceived benefits apply to the employer rather than the employee, making it important for companies to communicate how monitoring actually benefits employees.
Monitoring measures can be used to identify and reward employees who are working usa telegram data particularly hard, or to ensure that they are recognized for successfully completing projects/work. Employers can also allocate tasks more fairly and protect employees from making mistakes. It can prevent employees from working overtime or to promote a better work-life balance.
It's important to put in place measures that help employees and communicate this properly. Leaders responsible for compliance and privacy protection must proactively communicate the basics of employee monitoring to their employees: the what, when, how, why and who.
1. What types of data are collected
Inform your employees about the different types of personal data that are collected. Remember that this data may not be collected as part of their daily work, but as part of other processes, such as recruitment, onboarding, payroll or workplace communications.
The monitored participants state that the following data is collected at their workplace:
Monitoring of employees: these activities are monitored
The workforce benefits most from time and workload management, which not only ensures that employees do not work overtime and respect their break times, but also facilitates project planning and task allocation. However, employees surveyed also report being monitored in activities that are highly intrusive to their privacy, such as monitoring computer activity in 27% of companies.