The workplace has undergone numerous changes since COVID-19 enforced remote work requirements, including how employee surveillance tools have grown to monitor more and more employee activity. The rise of this expanded technology, with advancements aided by new developments in AI, has led to more questions around its practical uses and how employees perceive it.
Partner and Chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Laura Schneider joins this episode of In the Public Interest to discuss the tools and methods currently being used for employee surveillance. She shares her insights into how the workplace surveillance landscape has changed over the last few years, the role AI now plays and federal and state litigation surrounding this topic that could arise in the future.
Felicia Ellsworth: Welcome to In the Public Interest, a podcast from WilmerHale. My name is Felicia Ellsworth and I’m a partner at WilmerHale, an international law firm that works at the intersection of government, technology and business. In these days of artificial intelligence, the tools to monitor and surveil have grown robust. Employers leaned on these new surveillance tools during the pandemic. Today, those methods have only expanded. How are employers utilizing AI to monitor their businesses and surveil employees? How is this being received, and how are states and the federal government moving to protect those who may be negatively impacted? We’ll find out from our colleague, Laura Schneider, a...
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