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Employee monitoring or staff monitoring is the use of various workplace surveillance methods to gather information on the activities and location of your staff. There may be a number of reasons why employers may choose to monitor employees such as safeguarding staff, protecting resources or improving productivity.
You might want to monitor your staff to:
Employee monitoring can include:
Being monitored at work - Acas guidance.
The law recognises several reasons why an employer might want to monitor staff and sets out principles for carrying out such monitoring. The principle of purpose limitation is very important to ensure privacy. The results of any employee monitoring must be used solely for the purpose for which they are obtained. To ensure any employee monitoring you carry out is lawful and proper see monitor staff correctly and lawfully.
See the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) guidance on the Data Protection Act 2018.