Why Employee Surveillance Is Not Okay

Fiona J McEvoy
6 min readJun 9, 2020

More businesses are looking to keep tabs on their employees amid the shift to home-based working. This undermines the new atmosphere of trust and flexibility.

Writing for Aeon last week, Martin Parker, a professor of organization studies at the University of Bristol in the UK, relayed the origins of the word “management”, explaining:

“It is derived from the Italian mano

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Fiona J McEvoy

Tech ethics researcher. Founder of YouTheData.com. Tech issues for non-tech audiences. @YouTheData @FionaJMcEvoy