A law suit in the US highlights the question of just how much employee surveillance is permissableHave you ever felt that your employer is watching you? In the US,it seems some employers hold taken monitoring of their employees to a new level. A US sales executive is suing her employer for invasion of privacy, alleging she was fired after deleting a mobile phone app which tracked her movements – both inside and external of work.
The app was called Xora and, and according to court documents,employees were instructed to download it to their phones in April 2014. Xora’s website says the app can support bosses “automate the process of tracking employee and job time and allows them “to see the location of every mobile worker on a Google map”. In the lawsuit the employer admits that the worker would be tracked off duty and that it would even know how fast she was driving at specific moments.
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Source: theguardian.com