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I’ll Trade My Social Profile in Exchange for Job Security
Researches have predicted a huge rise of people willing to hand over their personal data to their employers, according to a report in The Guardian. This is especially prevalent among younger workers, the study found. The report was released from a consulting firm called PwC and comes from a survey of 10,500 people. In addition to advertisers, employers can start to understand what their employees do, like and what motivates them outside of the work place.
Cary Cooper, distinguished professor of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University, said there were obvious pitfalls. “First of all, it is naive to think that if you trade off your privacy rights (eg access to one’s social media) that an employer can ever guarantee job security,” he said.
“Second, I can’t see, if an employer had access to an employee’s social media, how this could possibly lead to greater employee motivation or wellbeing. This seems a plain case of trying to find out what employees are doing and thinking – clearly an intrusion into their private life. I see no HR justification for it whatsoever.”
With mounting student debt and a generation of workers for the first time in years expecting to earn less than their parents, privacy is clearly less of a priority.
—Posted by Donald Kaufman.
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Source: http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/ill_trade_my_social_profile_in_exchange_for_job_security_20140819/
