This weeks Personnel Today magazine features an article on developments in the area of workplace monitoring.
This has been a subject that has taxed me for a while and I am concerned that recent attempts by organisations to ban employees from blogging and from using social networking software is a genuine threat to creativity and networking in the workplace. This matter has been further complicated by the attitude of many employers to homeworking with many bosses regarding home workers as slackers who abuse the freedom afforded to them by their managers.
Jessica Twentyman concludes her article with a few words from me on the subject:
If you presuppose that everyone is skiving, you're quickly going to find that your recruitment and retention efforts are going down the drain, no-one wants to work for an employer that doesn't trust them to get on with their job and, while there will always be a handful of people who abuse the system, you can't run a company along the same lines as a police state.
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