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Tag: Employees/ Engagement

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Employee Surveillance: Crossing the Line From Trust to Coercion

Working from home has surfaced numerous risks. First security, now productivity. Increasingly, companies are using employee monitoring tools to track and measure employee activity at home. The software may increase productivity, but also may compromise employee privacy or foster anger and distrust. Shortsighted surveillance decisions may risk a hard-won corporate culture, and the governance team should pay close attention.

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New Risk: Can our Networks Handle a Nation Working from Home

Have our risk and continuity plans accounted for home network bottlenecks? Our day-job needs and expectations are colliding with our family-scale data networks. We are all home and online together: learning, streaming, gaming, trading, accessing, conferencing. In Europe, some networks and applications have seen traffic increases of 80% and 90%. Seattle has seen total internet traffic increase 30% over January. It is a great experiment. Fingers crossed.