WFH | Huge numbers of companies are spying on staff

According to a report published on Metro, 2020 saw a huge spike in the implementation of employee surveillance 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?

Whilst the process of monitoring screens is a moral grey area, official Government advice is clear that employers are legally free to monitor workplace technology without the knowledge of staff if they ‘suspect they’re breaking the law’ and ‘letting them know about it would make it hard to detect the crime’.