Results: Tracking Devices on Employees?
Published on 03/18/2013
Companies are putting tracking sensors on their employees!The devices are attached on employees' badges and and include bluetooth, microphone, motion sensor, and infrared beam. They are able to identify a person's tone of voice and movement when interacting with others. Bank of America, Steelcase, and Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc. are already using it and General Motors is talking about it.
It was created by a team of Ph.D MIT students who decided to observe what makes certain workplaces be as good as Google's at building teams.
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Have you heard of the tracking sensors? Yes
24%
296 votes
No
76%
952 votes
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Would you mind being one of the tracked employees? Yes, I would mind because it is invading my privacy
60%
747 votes
No, I wouldn't mind - The tracking time is the company's time and if they need to track me, this is fine with me
22%
273 votes
Undecided
18%
228 votes
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Bank of America used the sensors a few years ago and it studied how group interactions impacted performance. The sensor was attached to 90 call center employees. The bank then realized how important it was to allow employees to take breaks together because during their brakes together, employees would often resolve/share their workplace problems. Do you believe that the information being tracked is really going to help to improve the life of companies and employees? Yes, it will definitely improve it
17%
217 votes
No, people will behave differently and the environment will not be improved but rather falsified
48%
600 votes
Not sure
35%
431 votes
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The devices track the nature of conversation you are having. If you know that the conversations are not being listened but the tone of your voice is being tracked would mind helping the company to figure out ways to improve your work environment? Yes, I feel comfortable assisting with this
18%
226 votes
No, I do not approve someone to analyze my behavior
54%
673 votes
Undecided
28%
349 votes
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