Employee tracking has been present in our society for more than two centuries. In the year of 1888 (which is also the year of the famous London MatchgirlsStrike and Burlington railroad strike [PDF]), the company that later became known as the tech behemoth called IBM introduced the first timesheet. It was intended to monitor workers’ activity and productivity. Fast forward some 230 years later, and we are still trying to invent different ways on how to track the efficiency of the employees. The things have largely evolved in comparison to the aforementioned era. New technologies inevitably brought different ways of running businesses. It’s only natural that we are trying to put those new technologies in use wherever we can. They make our lives much easier. These days, we are no longer using the old-fashioned timesheets, but we are still logging the workers’ activity by installing employee tracking software to their computers and other business-related gadgets, such ...
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