{"id":2967,"date":"2021-01-14T08:56:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T23:00:31","slug":"monitoring-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/monitoring-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Three Reasons Why Monitoring Employees May Be Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Should I be monitoring employees<\/em><\/strong>? More and more employers are asking this question, especially since we\u2019re in a global pandemic and most employees are working from home.\u00a0 Of course, the question stems from the issue of abuse, whether it be lack of performance, accidents or other liability concerns.\u00a0 Employers are dedicated to ensuring safety, productivity and certainly prefer to avoid risks (caused by employees or otherwise). Employee behavior may positively or negatively impact the company\u2019s brand and finances.\u00a0 Therefore, being proactive and monitoring your employees is a wise policy.<\/p>\n

Opponents of monitoring employees argue that by doing so, employers are violating employees\u2019 privacy and creating a surveillance atmosphere placing them in an exposed state.\u00a0 Furthermore, proponents of employee rights claim that knowing that you are monitored may impact productivity and create a state of confinement, which may add unnecessary anxiety.<\/p>\n

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Both camps have valid points, but we\u2019ll be analyzing the top three reasons for monitoring employees, and the justification for doing so.<\/p>\n

Reason #1<\/p>\n

Drug and Alcohol Testing<\/a><\/p>\n

Drug and alcohol testing has been a means of monitoring employees for many decades now, and it\u2019s primarily been done in high-risk professions such as, construction workers, warehouse employees, security guards, and other demanding professions.\u00a0 COVID has certainly changed the situation and we\u2019re witnessing an explosion of drug and alcohol abuse.\u00a0 Prior to the pandemic, prescription drug abuse spiked to an overall double-digit percentage.\u00a0\u00a0 As such, testing should not be limited to specific industries, instead employers should consider a broad employment policy reform and the implementation of substance testing as a requirement to being hired and while working.<\/p>\n

Reason #2 Monitoring productivity during working hours<\/p>\n

Some employers now use sophisticated software to monitor their employee\u2019s activities during work hours.\u00a0 They monitor keyboard clicks, phone calls and overall activity through a system that is connected to the manager and is based on their network and VPN connection.\u00a0 Effectively, the manager is able to look into the employee\u2019s activity at any time during the day.\u00a0 Given that remote working is now prevalent, and it may be the way of the future, as more and more employers are considering this option to monitor daily productivity.\u00a0 This actually does benefit the employee because it keeps the employee accountable and helps with performance evaluations.\u00a0 So, it is another area for employers to consider.<\/p>\n

Reason #3 – Social Media and Political Correctness<\/p>\n

We see more and more situations of people getting in trouble based on what they said, where they said it, and how it was interpreted.\u00a0 Often employees think that by being out of the office, they are exempt from any sort of reprimand.\u00a0 On the contrary, an employee\u2019s actions, even outside of office hours may impact the employer.\u00a0 In age of the internet and increased availability of information, everything is being recorded.\u00a0 In particular, social media has caused so many problems for people as they don\u2019t consider the impact of their posts and comments.\u00a0 People seem to think that their posts are harmless, when in fact, something may trigger an unforeseen action, which may bring the employer to the spotlight.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s pretty common that employers typically connect with employees and monitor their behavior after being hired and prior to being hired.\u00a0 So, monitoring social media is one option for employers<\/a><\/p>\n

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Should I be monitoring employees? More and more employers are asking this question, especially since we\u2019re in a global pandemic and most employees are working from home.\u00a0 Of course, the question stems from the issue of abuse, whether it be lack of performance, accidents or other liability concerns.\u00a0 Employers are dedicated to ensuring safety, productivity […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wl_entities_gutenberg":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[382,383,1,410],"tags":[448,451,449,450],"wl_entity_type":[397],"class_list":["post-2967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background-checks","category-background-screening","category-drug-test-industry","category-employment-drug-testing","tag-drug-and-alcohol-testing","tag-monitoring-employees-in-2021","tag-monitoring-productivity-during-working-hours","tag-social-media-and-political-correctness-of-employees","wl_entity_type-article"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_wl_alt_label":[],"wl:entity_url":"http:\/\/data.wordlift.io\/wl0186\/post\/top_three_reasons_why_monitoring_employees_may_be_necessary","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2983,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions\/2983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"wl_entity_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugtestsinbulk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wl_entity_type?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}