In an era of remote work, more companies are tracking employees through desktop monitoring and other tools. While systems like this are put in place to prevent rule-breaking, recent findings suggest that they can actually encourage it.
Research outlined in a recent Harvard Business Review piece found that monitored employees were substantially more likely to break rules. This change was driven by a shift in employees’ sense of agency and personal responsibility — monitoring made employees subconsciously feel less responsible for their own conduct.
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