But the potential for monitoring is

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A company's motivation almost always boils down to its bottom line. Monitoring is no different; the employer is looking to protect assets or increase revenue.
at least partly beneficial to workers. Gartner’s Kropp believes that monitoring will go beyond surveillance and into incentives. In addition to being used to push workers to work harder, it could function like a Fitbit: “For example, data would be logged from your desk, and your computer would tell you after an hour of sitting that it’s time to get up and move,” Kropp says.

Brantner says Amazon’s wristbands could be used to minimize heavy labor and penalize warehouse managers, but she hasn’t seen any indication that the company is using them that way. “Are these companies using iceland number data technology to benefit their workers rather than to squeeze more productivity out of them? We can’t give a definitive answer because we don’t know,” Brantner says.

Whatever the benefits of employee monitoring (reduced theft, easier performance evaluation, security monitoring), sometimes the cost is greater than the technology itself. Monitoring can be counterproductive, limiting employee productivity and seriously curtailing creativity. According to researchers at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management, the presence of creative employees enhances creativity because managers don’t monitor employees too closely. And findings from the Tasmanian School of Business and Economics suggest that the mere presence of electronic surveillance can lead to employees engaging in counterproductive behavior.

Employees who are monitored may feel uncomfortable and stressed in the workplace and subsequently have a negative impact on their mental and physical well-being. Monitoring inherently creates a sense of mistrust between employee and employer, leading to retention issues, although Kropp notes, “When companies are transparent about the information they collect and why they want to collect it, nearly half of employees generally agree.”

Still, surveillance can be demoralizing and dehumanizing. No matter the industry, workers fear being replaced by robots. Until then, an army of cyborgs straps on badges that monitor speech and slips its feet into boots that track location.