Monitoring and surveillance technologies are becoming ubiquitous in workplaces, often with significant unintended consequences. Assessing the risk to privacy from implementing technology that monitors identities, biometrics, location and other elements can be a challenge. The human impact goes beyond that and also needs to be considered.
The panel discussion will explore the human cost and considerations of having monitoring technologies in workplaces:
- What impact, if any, does implementing surveillance technologies in the workplace or work vehicles have on people’s motivation?
- How can organizations prepare to implement surveillance in a way that complies with privacy laws
- Does having surveillance technologies engender or undermine trust — of employers by employees, and of employees by employers?
- Who benefits and loses most when surveillance technologies are in the workplace?
- Does having technological surveillance improve productivity? Workplace security? Does it give people a legitimate or unwarranted sense of personal security?
- Even if the law allows the use of technological monitoring or surveillance, should they be used? Is there a better way?
