Managerial authority and digital monitoring at work
Managerial authority and digital monitoring at work
This paper examines the boundaries of legitimate digital monitoring in the workplace, at the level of both normative theory and legal doctrine. Although monitoring at work is far from a new phenomenon, the paper identifies how digitalisation of this surveillance creates novel risks to workers’ human rights and autonomy due to quantitative and qualitative differences from previous managerial practices. Against this backdrop, the article considers the extent to which managerial authority over workplace monitoring practices is, and should be, constrained by the law.
Atkinson, Joe
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September 2024
Atkinson, Joe
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Atkinson, Joe
(2024)
Managerial authority and digital monitoring at work.
Workshop on Digital Monitoring, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands.
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This paper examines the boundaries of legitimate digital monitoring in the workplace, at the level of both normative theory and legal doctrine. Although monitoring at work is far from a new phenomenon, the paper identifies how digitalisation of this surveillance creates novel risks to workers’ human rights and autonomy due to quantitative and qualitative differences from previous managerial practices. Against this backdrop, the article considers the extent to which managerial authority over workplace monitoring practices is, and should be, constrained by the law.
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Published date: September 2024
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Workshop on Digital Monitoring, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Netherlands, 2025-09-09
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