A not-so-shocking development: Workers don’t enjoy being spied on electronically any more than they’d like their boss physically hovering over their cubicle. Not only does monitoring sow distrust, resentment, and paranoia, it also worsens a company’s work product—the antithesis of monitoring software in the first place.
Forty-one percent of U.S. professionals said they feel less productive when their boss monitors their work devices, per a 2,300-person survey released by Glassdoor on Tuesday. Workers in finance and tech were most likely to say that monitoring harmed productivity and negatively impacted their work output, while accounting professionals were more likely to feel comfortable with employee surveillance. Yet, 36% of workers were unsure whether they’re being monitored in the first place.
