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August 21, 2026

As workplace surveillance grows, experts say it's good to know the ways your employer is watching

  • Employers are increasingly using technology to monitor the whereabouts, productivity and communications of workers.
    • By CATHY BUSSEWITZ
    Associated Press

    NEW YORK — College administrators read an adjunct professor's comments to students on personal essays. Managers told a pharmacist to spend less time with patients after tracking the number and length of her appointments. Scanners on a warehouse conveyor belt monitored the pace of workers to ensure they inspected hundreds of items per hour.

    Thousands of employers are keeping tabs on the whereabouts, productivity and communications of workers with technology that was adopted widely during the coronavirus pandemic. A vast array of digital tools still are being used to track locations, collect data on task completion rates, and access work-issued smartphone and laptop cameras, raising concerns about how much privacy employees have relinquished, even in their own homes.


     
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