Economy after the pandemic Monitor work at home.
Some offices have several CCTVs to monitor different parts of the workplace. They record movements in the office. The owner can set the CCTV to send an alert when there is movement after office hours.

The cost of the CCTV, including a SD card, is $60. This is a useful device to install in the workplace at home for the supervisor to monitor the workers. It creates a self discipline for the worker to work during the designated hours.

The workers are monitored by the supervisor at the workplaces. This is the electronic way to monitor the worker while they work at home.

There are other ways to monitor the worker, such as assessing the work that is done. But the monitoring of the time spent in the work station is a necessary measure. 

Workers have to accept this situation. It is an acceptable alternative to being monitored at the workplace. There is no loss of privacy as the working hours are not supposed to be private time. 

A good solution is for the worker to turn on the CCTV when the working hours start and and to turn it off at the end of the working day. This is similar to the practice of clocking on and off. 

I believe that the CCTV can be set to turn on and off during the specified times of the working day. 

The employer needs to feel comfortable that the worker is working at the designed hours. If they have this confidence, they are more likely to allow more workers to work at home, rather than come to the office. 

I do not accept the statement that the employer should trust the worker to be working as they are required to. It is difficult to be sure that the worker can be trusted. The employer can rely on blind trust.

The CCTV helps to build this trust. 

As more companies allow their workers to work at home for a large proportion of the working week, I expect that the CCTV will become quite common in the home for monitoring of home based work.

Tan Kin Lian



 

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