Overuse of employee-monitoring tools can lead to serious outcomes, including mistrust, privacy concerns, low morale, and an ...

Employers monitor employees with various technologies, including instant messaging apps (that identify “active” or “away” status), phone, computer screen and video surveillance, GPS monitoring and ...

Employers frequently conduct electronic monitoring and surveillance of their employees to protect against employee misconduct, manage productivity, and increase workplace safety. In doing so, ...

Perhaps at no time in modern history have employers seemingly had less of a grip on their workforce. The amorphous, pre-COVID, practices of “flex time” and work-from-home have been stretched and ...

December 6, 2022 - There can be no dispute that the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally altered the American workplace by sending employees home to work remotely. Even as the pandemic wanes, a large ...

This summer, a Wake County woman left her job at Nationwide Insurance. Her decision wasn’t driven by a lack of promotion opportunities; she had advanced multiple times to reach a senior position at ...

Since early 2020, more employees are working from home than ever before. While increases to the remote workforce were driven primarily by pandemic-related mitigation measures, many organizations have ...

Since Covid slammed into old work assumptions like a bowling bowl about five years ago, one thing has remained constant: bitter arguments about remote work. In these endless circular arguments about ...

The issue of companies monitoring employee computer activity grabbed headlines last month after Wells Fargo revealed it fired over a dozen people it caught “faking work.” The accused, the bank said in ...

An Apple ad tech employee filed a lawsuit against his employer on Sunday over how the company monitors its employees, reports Semafor. Apple wants its employees to use Apple devices for work, but work ...

The average American spends more than seven hours a day looking at their computer screen. A personal computer should provide the power and security users need today, while giving them the tools they ...

In this month's edition of his Employment Law column, Nicholas J. Pappas discusses various laws that employers should keep in mind when assessing their electronic monitoring policies and practices. He ...