Competing Safety vs. Privacy Issue: The Workspace Technology Perspective

The prevention of COVID-19 is driving governing bodies to collect vast amounts of information on individuals, from one’s health status to recent travel history. Amassing such information at the workplace by employers is however subject to debate. Regardless, there is an abundance of technologies at the workplace capable of identifying the individual. Balancing between using the technologies to keep the workplace safe against concerning individual privacy should be at the core of workplace policy making.