What You Need to Know

• More than 500 in-house lawyers, C-suite executives and HR professionals weighed in on employee monitories in a new Littler Mendelson survey.
• The survey found 45% of companies were using employee surveillance and 41% were not and weren't considering doing so.
• Surveillance was most prevalent at companies with more than 10,000 employees.

From keystroke loggers to screenshot-capturing software and webcam eye-trackers, employee-monitoring tools have been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic drove white collar workers out of their cubicles and into home offices.

But a new survey from Littler Mendelson found a deep divide among employers on whether the technologies are a good idea. The survey of 515 in-house lawyers, C-suite executives and HR professionals in the U.S. found 45% of companies are using them, but 41% are not and aren’t considering doing so. Twelve percent are considering adoption, and 1% have made the decision to adopt but haven’t yet done so.

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