[Air-L] Seeking documentation on prevalence of employee surveillance technologies

[Luc Cousineau]

Hello AoIR community,

My colleagues from the International Network on Technology, Work, and Family (Ariane Ollier-Malaterre, Xavier Parent-Rocheleau) and I are currently working on a project examining the prevalence of employee surveillance technologies (i.e., "Bossware" like keylogging, random screenshots, webcam monitoring, etc.), and developing a typology of these technologies.

While there is some information available from the industry and grey literatures, we are in search of data about the actual use of specific types of employee surveillance technologies. Works like Charbonneau and Doberstein (2020), Mateescu and Nguyen (2019) and Ravid et al. (2020) provide good overviews, but lack specific usage numbers. We are seeking material (published and unpublished) that we can use to assess the prevalence of different types of bossware in different parts of the world and are hoping that this community can point to sources we have not yet identified.

The help of this active and positive community is much appreciated. Please reach out with any questions.

Luc Cousineau

Luc S. Cousineau, Ph.D.
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