This week on The Fin, workplace correspondent David Marin-Guzman discusses the test case of a compliance company that has been spying on its staff, what it means for work from home and how AI will affect the future of surveillance.
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Company turned laptops into covert recording devices to monitor WFHSafetrac says it needed to track work-from-home staff for underperformance, but some employees say the surveillance went too far and police are now investigating.
WFH surveillance case is a wake-up callThe Safetrac case shines a spotlight on the issue of employee surveillance versus the right to personal privacy when staff work from home.
Safetrac surveillance installed without staff agreement: HR managerThe firm, which turned staff laptops into covert listening devices, should have updated its surveillance policy beforehand, its own people manager told WorkCover.