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These reluctant employees may well be onto something, as commentators warn that concerns around explicit bias creeping are quite valid.

The same survey showed that a third of people were not prepared to share their data at all, and a separate survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggested that nearly 40% of respondents did not trust their employer to not use the data against them. However, a freebie will not win everyone round. Over 50% were also prepared to share the data with their employees if it helped improve the company’s health and wellbeing programme. This increased to over 60% if the company provided a financial incentive to use it.

A 2017 survey by AXA showed that over half of the people questioned would be open to wearing a fitness device if it was supplied free-of-charge. However, they too, are not without their difficulties.įitness tracking, for example, can be viewed positively if financial rewards are on the table. On paper, other technology such as fitness trackers and global positioning system (GPS) can also offer benefits to wellbeing and productivity. In one case study, a bank improved productivity in its call centres by 23% by replicating the break schedule of its top-performing team in another example, long tables in restrooms were found to boost communication more than other, more expensive interventions. From this, trends can be identified and the workplace can be adapted. The data collected is used to map how people interact against other information such as staff turnover, satisfaction and performance. Similarly, a Boston startup called Humanyze is having success with its use of sociometric badges that record employee’s movement and vocal activity. At the time, around 50 of the 80 employees voluntarily had the chip implanted. The media were interested and employees were enthused. Although the tiny radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip didn’t track employees per se, it allowed them to do all sorts of other things on the move, such as open doors, purchase food from the cafeteria and log onto computers with a wave of their hand.

On the other side of the coin, you may have heard of Three Square Market, a US company that made headlines around a year ago when it offered its employees the option of having a microchip inserted into their hand.