There’s An App For That: Considerations in Employee GPS Monitoring

Employers now have available the technology that concerned parents of wayward teenagers have often wished for. Thanks to technological advances, one can now monitor another’s movements in ways that could only be imagined a couple of decades ago.

 

The benefits of tracking employee activity through GPS (Global Positioning Systems) include: (i) verifying routes and locations for mobile employees, particularly in the transportation or delivery industry, (ii) ensuring that employees are not violating traffic laws, (iii) monitoring employee overtime, (iv) verifying that employee time records are accurate, (v) locating company-owned stolen vehicles, and (vi) verifying that employees are not misusing company vehicles by, for example, driving to inappropriate locations or at inappropriate times.

 

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