Companies Begin Hiring Corporate Snoops to Snitch on Employees

Big Brother is watching. Or in this case, investigative firms.

NPR reports “corporate monitoring” is on the rise as external firms keep a close eye on employees from the inside. For instance, Matt Unger of K2 Intelligence, a NYC-based investigative firm, indicates a certain type of software takes actual shots of employees’ behavior at the office.

He explains in the piece, “We see that this guy Kevin all of a sudden started calling the 410 area code where he never did that before, and he stopped answering emails — he’s being less responsive to his peers.”

Unger adds, “What has he got cooking on the outside that he’s spending so much time on the phone and he’s not able to answer his peers?”

And although red flag behaviors don’t make up a specific type of list of sorts, misconduct can fall into a gray area.

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