By: Telegraph
Feb 20, 2020
Barclays is scrapping technology which allowed bosses to spy on its bankers following a backlash over the invasion of staff privacy.
The bank is axing tracking software which allows managers to see how long employees are spending away from their desks and the time it takes to do different tasks at their computers.
Introduced in a trial last week, the technology sends warnings to staff if they spend too long on a single task or are not active enough. It sparked fury from privacy campaigners, who said workers’ rights were being violated.
A spokesman for charity campaign group Privacy International said: “Data protection rules are very clear, strict and do not allow employers to carry out such monitoring unless they are able to prove that this is strictly necessary and proportionate and it does not severely impact employees’ rights….