Barclays Bank installed spyware sensors to track employees in the workplace
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In the London division of the bank, devices were installed that record the time the staff was at workplaces. According to Bloomberg, Barclays Plc employees over the past months have found unknown black boxes attached to desktops. For clarification, they turned to the leadership. It turned out that these were OccupEye tracking devices that record how long an employee has been in his place. For information are used sensors of heat and movement of people.
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According to Barclays spokesman Tom Hoskin, the devices were installed in stages, and Unite employees and the union were notified of the innovation. However, the bankers themselves say that they did not receive any information about the introduction of tracking sensors.
In an official statement, representatives of Barclays said that the goal of OccupEye is not tracking people, but evaluating the efficiency of using office space. In the London offices of other large banks - JPMorgan Chase & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Credit Suisse Group AG - such tracking devices are not used. This Bloomberg sources said on condition of anonymity.
OccupEye Device | Image: Lancashire Telegraph
Bankers from Barclays were not the first whom company executives control with OccupEye - in 2016, such devices were installed in the Daily Telegraph edition. The purpose of the implementation was to track the quality and time of work of journalists. After the information about the installation of the tracking sensors hit the Internet, a big scandal broke out, and under pressure from the critics, the management decided to abandon the installation of the OccupEye system.
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