UK government could force bosses to consult employees before rolling out worker surveillance tools
THE SO WHAT
If UK employers must consult unions or staff before deploying digital surveillance, monitoring tools stop being a pure IT decision and become a negotiated change program. Any AI-driven productivity tooling that touches employee monitoring will need a governance and comms plan baked into rollout.
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