Private Eyes, They See Your Every Move: Workplace Surveillance and Worker Well-Being.

ABSTRACT: Despite a surge in the number of organizations using surveillance technology to monitor their workers, understanding of the health impacts of these technologies in the broader working population is limited. The current study addresses this omission using a novel measure of an individual's overall perception of workplace surveillance, which enables it to be asked of all workers, rather than only those in specific occupations or work contexts that have historically been vulnerable to electronic performance monitoring. Structural equation modeling analyses based on a national sample of Canadian workers (N = 3,508) reveal that surveillance perceptions are indirectly associated with increased psychological distress and lower job satisfaction through stress proliferation. Findings demonst

SUBMITTER: Glavin P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11300163 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature