Software designer Surfshark released its Employee Surveillance Report highlighting trends in employee surveillance from March 2020 to March 2021. Surfshark scraped searches for "bossware" surveillance tools across the world and found the use of and interest in employee monitoring was most prevalent in Sweden, the U.S. and Norway. The study also found one in five businesses are deploying surveillance technology while 62% of companies do so to collect productivity data. The report goes on to compare various monitoring tools and discuss potential employee privacy tactics.
Employee Surveillance Report: Is your boss spying on you?

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