Employee supervision methods that may violate employee rights
Publication date: April 15, 2025
Monitoring employees at work is a common practice in many organizations. The tools used for such monitoring are designed to assess employee performance and time spent on individual tasks. This system has proven useful during the pandemic, when many people switched to remote work and the supervisor’s supervision was significantly reduced. However, employee control must be applied in a manner consistent with legal regulations, especially the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires employers to protect employee privacy. There are a number of monitoring methods that can lead to serious violations of these rights if they are not used in accordance with the appropriate rules. Recently, there has been a boom in such methods for monitoring employees, such as keylogging – measuring keyboard keystrokes in a given unit of time, tracking what someone is typing on the keyboard, recording mouse movements, or the number of logins to a given system.
