A quarter of tech employees on Blind say their company conducts 'unreasonable' monitoring

In a true-or-false survey of 6,707 anonymous app users by Blind, 25.8% said their company "goes to unreasonable lengths to monitor employees." Booking.com employees represented the highest percentage of respondents at any one company answering "true" at 54.12%, followed by Intel (43.5%), Snapchat (40%), PayPal (38.6%) and Veritas (37.7%). The lowest percentage of respondents answering in the affirmative were at Spotify, at 4.7%. Employers are increasingly adopting tech that allows for electronic monitoring of employees, according to Blind, citing research from SAGE Business Researcher. Per SAGE, the number of employees using some type of electronic monitoring is now at 67%. Not all companies spy on employees, but some do, Blind said. A survey by the Bentley Center for Business Ethics found 25% of employers allow information technology staff to look at other workers' internet activity and personal emails for any reason. Blind said electronic surveillance is likely to cause stress for employees and decrease their job satisfaction.