Shirking from home? Staff feel the heat as bosses ramp up remote surveillance

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Sub-title: "As management seeks more oversight of workers away from the office, campaigners fight for privacy to be respected."

In this article, published in the Guardian/Observer on September 27th 2020, Dr Claudia Pagliari and other experts discuss how the massive transition to working from home, during the COVID19 pandemic, is raising new ethical challenges for employees' privacy. Extreme examples include bosses spying on workers through covert technologies. At a lower level, it includes extensions of existing approaches for tracking work-related behaviour and performance using digital platforms. The article reflects on how to find the right balance for enabling remote work to proceed effectivenly while avoiding zealous over-reach into people's personal spaces and private lives.