Real-time employee monitoring technology adoption in construction industry from legal, ethical and behavioural perspective

Real-time Employee Monitoring Technologies (REMT) are becoming increasingly prevalent in recent years. The construction industry is exploring more comprehensive and advanced technologies to improve workplace health & safety, and productivity. REMT applications have not been well-received for tracking individuals, which indicates some concerns for applying these technologies in the sector. This paper presents a systematic literature review of 63 selected articles to review applied technologies and explore the benefits and considerations of using REMT in construction and non-construction-related projects. Some potential problems were identified and divided into three main clusters—Legal: Privacy Intrusion, Employment Relations, and Compliance Liability; Ethical: Scope, Quality, Standards and Function of Monitoring; and Behavioural: Trust, Work Behaviours and Mental Health and Wellbeing. Through the literature review, statements of concern were found, which give negative perceptions to REMT users and heighten awareness of the industry on how to address these concerns. The study concludes with practical considerations, checklist questions, and theoretical implications with a proposed research prototype using Communication Privacy Management (CPM) theory for REMT adoption in the construction sector.
1. Literature review (done need a further review)
2. Questionnaire and focus group have been done. I need a data analysis paper.
3. Trial experiment to test the guideline, a cost-benefit analysis paper.