New York, Mar. 8 (ANI): A large number of companies are using real-time sensors to track their employee's productivity and office behavior.
Bank of America and Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. are among some of the big name companies that have turned to monitoring devices to gather data on how their employees work and communicate, reports the New York Daily News.
Companies say the sensors are used to improve workplace operations for the better - and employees can opt out as they please.
Lewis Maltby, president of employee advocacy group National Workrights Institute, said being followed around all the time is "a creepy way to work".
Bank of America began employing tracking sensors several years ago in an attempt to determine whether colleague interaction mattered for the productivity of its call-center teams.
Last year, Cubist asked 30 of its sales and marketing employees to wear similar sensor badges, which monitored their activity, as well as their conversational tone.
The company found that workers were more productive when they had face-time with other employees, though such communications plummeted during lunch time when people went back to their desks to read e-mails and browse the Internet.
In response, Cubist revamped its cafeteria to make it more inviting and removed all but one water cooler and coffee station to encourage interaction. (ANI)
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