Daily Telegraph installs devices to track when reporters are at their workstations
The Daily Telegraph has come under fire after it emerged the publication had installed devices capable of detecting whether staff were at their desks.
Heat and motion detecting trackers, first noticed by Buzzfeed, have been implanted below the desks of Telegraph staff and are capable of detecting how frequently desks are occupied. Said staff noticed the boxes at their workstations on Monday morning.
The OccupEye ‘Automated Workspace Utilisation Analysis’ devices, reportedly help “space planners come up with more innovative, efficient and robust methods of tracking workplace utilisation” in real time.
In other words, the devices are capable of tracking whether desks are manned. Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
