New technology keeping tabs on employees

New technology allowing the electronic ‘tagging’ of employees was criticised at the GMB congress in Newcastle upon Tyne this week. GMB claim that “the dehumanising of work via the use of new computer and satellite technology particularly in the wholesale distribution industry” is a major cause of high labour turnover.

A variety of wearable devices, often computers worn on the arm and finger linked to local area radio networks and GPS systems, are now in use in the&n... (112 more words)

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