'Micromanagement' | Shocking number of companies are SPYING on workers

Whilst various studies have shown that for many, productivity has actually increased since lockdown first took place in March of 2020 and workers largely moved to remote working. However, for some bosses, the prospect of leaving workers to their own devices and trusting that work is taking place is just too much.

As a result, many bosses have done the one thing they can do to continue observing their workers whilst remote – install spying software on their computers.

According to a report published on Metro, 2020 saw a huge spike in the implementation of such software. In a YouGov/Skillcast poll of 2,009 companies, 12% said they had brought in remote monitoring, with that number growing to 16% at larger firms, and eight per cent said they were thinking of doing so in the imminent future.

Is secretly monitoring staff illegal?