Georgia Balmer explores how the COVID-19 Pandemic may have changed our working habits for the better.
Employers
Remote-working supervision see a threat to employee privacy
Work from home has not been the decline of productivity that every big business had predicted it to be. It has hurt normal human habits and mental health, but studies have shown that employees are not unmotivated. The age-old narrative of employees solely being motivated by material gains and self-interest, and that they won’t work without supervision from higher-ups, is but a myth. It does not justify widespread breach of privacy.