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Your boss has more ways than ever to monitor what you're doing at work
- Employers are expanding oversight with new tools to track work activity and location across devices.
- Remote work growth has driven the push for surveillance, giving bosses more power yet raising privacy concerns.
- Google updates may archive texts on work phones, an optional feature in regulated industries.
- Microsoft Teams will soon identify the company building a worker is in via WiFi to aid in-person coordination.
- Experts say monitoring should have strict limits and ideally be disclosed to workers.
- Companies may remove work data from personal devices but still access information on company-issued devices.
- The article notes tensions around determining what data employers can access.
- AT&T reduced use of an attendance-tracking system due to inaccuracies in offices.
- Government accountability office data show mixed views on monitoring, depending on safety vs. productivity aims.
- Experts warn that monitoring personal devices can create legal and privacy headaches.
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