It is to be noted that video surveillance may be overt and covert. In the first case employees are aware of being watched and as a result they try to carry out their duties more efficiently. However, they behave rather constrained. In the case of covert video surveillance employees have no idea of that and feel free, which enables the employer to watch not only their work, but also their demeanour, way of thinking and other personal characteristics.
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Covert video surveillance is regarded as illegal, for it runs counter to the constitutional right to privacy. According to the Bigness.ru, in a company specializing in surveillance systems the covert video surveillance has recently become widespread accompanied by overt system.
As it turns out, employees often agree to video surveillance, for they are interested in their own security. Naturally, it brings some discomfort into working process, because they are kept under surveillance every second, but later employees get accustomed to it and feel indifferent.
According to employees, it is always useful to have an all-seeing and alert guardian in the front-office who can detect malefactors and unwelcome visitors. Besides, that enhances the company’s prestige in the eyes of its partners. Video cameras in offices can discipline employees and stimulate them to come to work on time.
It is quite fair to control halls by cameras and in extreme case smoking rooms, but not more than that. “Leave public places at employees’ disposal,” employees claim.
However, sometimes enthusiasm runs away with hard-working employers and they step out of line. For instance, German supermarket group Lidl is known to have spied on its staff. Besides video control its manager employed private detectives who obtained information about personal and even intimate life of its employees.
“The detective agency’s accounts contain several hundreds of pages and report in detail how often its employees go to the toilet within a working day, how they react to customers’ questions and what they talk about between themselves,” Deutsche Welle said. “The accounts also inform about personal and even intimate life of the employees, for example, whether there are any intimate relations between employees, whether they have tattoos and what kind of tattoos, what clothes they wear at work and how they smell, who behaves naïve and who is professionally inappropriate.”
In Russia such a situation is hardly possible, Bigness.ru concluded. It can be explained by the fact that Russian employees are not used to defending their rights and they often agree to all initiatives of their employers.
Source: bigness.ru
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