Tech you wear is becoming more and more popular. Various bracelets, smart-watches, etc. that are able to measure your body’s readings are now reality rather than science-fiction it was remaining until the previous decade. Mobile application development services are now offering apps that can measure lots of various data from your heart rate and stress level to the amount of calories you have lost or gained on a daily basis if combined with the right hardware. It would be a shame not to use these new advantages.

In use already?

So tech is now becoming an important part of every workers busy day at work. More and more companies are now referring to gadgets in order to monitor their workers day. For example in some restaurants workers are wearing electronic badges with special software that measures the distance waiter has walked through his day. The lazy ones can even get fired yet it’s not all bad, especially if you are as hardworking and determined as a merry bee. Such monitoring gives workers a chance to be noticed and even to get a promotion they might have never received without the new tech.

The company itself is receiving nothing but profit from such monitoring. Researches show that in restaurants from the previous examples profits grew up to the average of 7%. And both tech developers and companies that are using such methods are not going to stop on recent achievements.

Companies are creating tech that is more and more advanced and equipped for 100% monitoring, like badges with microphones and recording devices in addition to regular movement monitoring. The devices are even able to analyze the duration of the conversation and the intonations of the speaker. Such gadgets are being used to analyze productiveness of cashiers or waiters, or simply to monitor team-spirit in a company of any kind.

But is it so bad?

Thanks to such monitoring the “Bank of America” for instance found out that their call-center operators are more efficient at work after a break where they have the possibility to communicate with each other. So the company made 15-minute coffee-breaks for their employees which lead to a 10% productivity increase and to a 70% shortage of workers willing to quit.

Thus practice is showing that monitoring people can help in improving their working conditions. And, nevertheless, there are people that believe that such conditions are a violation of human rights. Lawyers and human right fighters are now offering new changes to the law due to the evolution of tech and monitoring abilities.

So remember:

• There are benefits from your work monitoring to both you and your company
• It is only up to you to decide, whether this way suits you right. Don’t want to get monitored – don’t. You can always find a job that will satisfy your needs, so choose wisely.