My employer recently started installing motion and heat sensors under employees’ desks. They claim it is not for monitoring individuals, but for analyzing workspace usage and identifying free desks.
Given that the company in question is a bank, and teams must often be physically separated from each other for compliance and liability reasons, I am highly dubious of that explanation. Only a handful of people outside my immediate team can even access the floor where we’re located, and they certainly couldn’t just plop down at an empty desk and start working. And yet we have the sensors anyway.
And even if that were the reason, the fact that they thought anyone would believe it is concerning in itself.
Watch out - you're about to receive a hot-desking initiative. See obviously only 80% of the workforce is in the building at any given time, so you don't really need to provision desk-space for all of them. There will definitely be no on-going productivity issues from all the time people spend trying to find somewhere to sit, or forcing people to setup their whole workspace every single day they come in.
yep. happened at my workplace. we had offices and cubicles. had sensors installed and now we are hot desking. many people don't like it and choose to work from home... so they are installing sensors under the hot desks to figure out how many of us are even coming in any more.
Normally I would agree, but I just don’t see how it would work in an institution where teams are often required to be physically isolated from each other, and almost everyone works on-site.
Given that the company in question is a bank, and teams must often be physically separated from each other for compliance and liability reasons, I am highly dubious of that explanation. Only a handful of people outside my immediate team can even access the floor where we’re located, and they certainly couldn’t just plop down at an empty desk and start working. And yet we have the sensors anyway.
And even if that were the reason, the fact that they thought anyone would believe it is concerning in itself.