February 6, 2006

Mobile phones used to tag employees

by Brian Turner

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Concerns are being raised over systems increasingly used to track employees and equipment.

The tracking systems can use mobile phones and nothing more than a PC connected to the internet to track their positions.

While the systems require employees to opt-in, and may promise cost-benefits, there seems little coverage of how employees feel about it.

While some business models, such as delivery services, often require close monitoring systems that are already in use with satellite navigation and similar, there are concerns that employee tracking may be expanded to other industries without proper consideration.

Surveillance systems employed to monitor if they are actually where they say they are may well develop poor trust relationships within the workplace itself, and encourage poor morale.

For some companies, the supposed cost benefits of tracking may well be balanced by poorer employee productivity.

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