{"id":58073,"date":"2025-01-30T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wfh-with-privacy-85-of-brit-bosses-snoop-on-staff\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T10:15:06","slug":"wfh-with-privacy-85-of-brit-bosses-snoop-on-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/wfh-with-privacy-85-of-brit-bosses-snoop-on-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than three-quarters of UK employers admit to using some form of surveillance tech to spy on their remote workers’ productivity.<\/p>\n

Eighty-five percent of the 1,000 workplaces surveyed said they were using monitoring tools to some extent.<\/p>\n

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Simple examples include tracking the websites workers visit and the apps they use \u2013 more than a third engaged in this \u2013 while more invasive approaches involved checking the actual display of the company-issued device in real time. Over a quarter of employers (27 percent) admitted to this, while 15 percent said they went as far as tracking keystrokes.<\/p>\n

The most popular form of surveillance was monitoring active work hours, with 54 percent saying this was going on, and employees’ emails and chat logs were also examined by employers (36 percent and 28 percent, respectively).<\/p>\n

One in five confirmed they track the locations from which employees are working \u2013 bad news for the digital nomads<\/a>.<\/p>\n