Question

give a analysis by stating benefits of surveillance at workplace and hot to make sure it will not affect the employees and work negatively.      

Answer 1

Benefits of surveillance at the workplace are as follows:

1. Efficient Time Management: Surveillance at workplaces improves the productivity of an employee. It pushes an employee to focus on the work rather than socializing over Facebook and Instagram. Monitoring software reveals if an employee is shopping online, checking Facebook/Instagram. Surveillance software makes an employee aware that he is being watched and he must focus on work while he is in office

2. Loss Prevention: Surveillance equipment such as CCTV cameras, allow employers to protect their business assets like computers, laptops, coffee machines, printers, phones, etc., from getting damaged by an employee. CCTV Surveillance reduces the risk of theft for an employer, if an employee is slipping a box of paper clips or providing proprietary company information to the competitor

3. Improved Employee Performance: Companies directly tell employees that they are being watched with the help of surveillance software for their emails and tasks they are doing at their workstations. This is done intentionally for making employees behave in a decent manner and focus on their work while they're in the office premises. This forces an employee to push himself to do the work and obey his supervisor to make his life easy

4. Reduced Insurance Rates: Most insurance companies provide reduced insurance premiums when business owners have installed video surveillance systems in their workplace. This ensures that insurance companies will not be wrongfully targeted for getting false claims

Not affecting the employees negatively

It is morally incorrect to utilize workplace surveillance to monitor employees. It makes employees feel like prisoners and reduces their will to work for the betterment of the company. Even though, if surveillance systems are being set up; employees should be given the free space to do their thing comfortably and their managers should not be over their heads for everything. If a manager goes by the observations of surveillance system, he might lose his colleague in the long run. Surveillance systems should be implemented in a fashion that employee is fully aware of how it works and what is the threshold limit for employees to go offbeat from the work while being in office premises. This will promote healthy working environment and further improve the performance of employees in the long run. No strict actions should be taken against the employees who are found doing something other than work while in office premises, this will promote health behavior between the colleagues