Monitoring employees, or spying for the Orwellian enthusiasts, is an uncomfortable issue for most companies. While everyone wants to trust employees, there are daily reminders of employees turning into insider threats and negatively impacting organizations. The benefits of monitoring are well known visibility of employee actions, protection of assets, knowledge of threatening behaviors, etc., all of which can support security, compliance and productivity use cases. There are five general categories of government regulations that impose affirmative obligations to monitor employee behaviors.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3227013/legal-incentives-for-spying-on-employees.html