Every worker has different needs and these kinds of strict controls deprive the employees of all freedoms over the course of their working day. This might result in loss of interests too.

London based call centre employees of a Norwegian insurance company got a rude shock, when they knew how their employer monitored their leisure breaks. As per the employer’s plan, which is stiffly opposed by the employees, an alarm shall get alerted if an employee spends more than 8 minutes per day in a toilet. The alarm is a part of the newly installed surveillance system, as per a report in Telegraph. The managers of the department are alerted by flashing lights, once an employee over spends duration in loo break.

But the employees waged a protest against the management against such implementation addressing that their `privy is at stake.’ Unions also voiced their opinion against such surveillance. They felt the new policy was highly intrusive" and a potential breach of their human rights. But defending their move, the firm has asserted that their intention behind the checks was not to measure the breaks taken by individual workers but to assess staffing needs to ensure all calls from customers were answered and it would now be reviewing the policy. (With inputs from Internet-AarKay)