Tracking Apps Monitor Remote Employees' Performance—and Invade Their Privacy

Tracking apps monitor remote employees' performance—and invade their privacy

Digital monitoring is now a regular part of our working reality. From CCTV cameras to call recording, surveillance in the workplace is not new.

Tracking apps monitor remote employees’ performance — and invade their privacy

Business owners and managers claim that monitoring apps improve worker productivity. (Shutterstock)Digital monitoring is now a regular part of our working reality. From CCTV cameras to call recording, surveillance in the workplace is not new. But workers now face a more detailed and intrusive type of monitoring that is less understood, and at times even entirely unknown, by employees: employee monitoring applications (EMAs). It’s no longer just …