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The secret file your boss doesn't want you to see | Ep7 S3
📄 Full research article and references: www.keca.co.uk/articles/who-gets-to-say-what-you-are
Workplace monitoring is often seen as intrusive by most staff, yet few realise they have a legal right to access their data.
Recent surveys suggest that 70% of people find constant tracking invasive, with fewer than 20% willing to accept a role where it is standard practice. This creates a difficult tension regarding employee privacy, as the tools used to track performance often operate without clear transparency.
In the United Kingdom, you have a formal right to request access to your personal information gathered by these systems. It is crucial to note that this is a right to see the data itself rather than a right to an explanation of why it exists. Exercising these data rights can change how you view your employer's oversight, but it is important to know exactly what you are entitled to request before you start.
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70% of people the regulator surveyed said they would find being monitored at work intrusive. Less than one in five would be comfortable taking a job knowing it happened. Here's the part almost nobody knows. In the United Kingdom, a subject-access request reaches the personal information collected through monitoring and not only a personnel file.
It's a right of access rather than a right to an explanation. So what would yours actually say?