{"id":9970,"date":"2021-06-03T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9970"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:56:42","slug":"is-it-a-good-idea-for-employers-to-track-their-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/is-it-a-good-idea-for-employers-to-track-their-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a good idea for employers to track their employees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"special-title\">Looking for tools to track employees? Here are some software choices. Should you do it? Read up on the legalities.<\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chamberplan.ca\/product\/blogs\/read,article\/195\/is-it-a-good-idea-for-employers-to-track-their-employees\">Is it a good idea for employers to track their employees?<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>In late 2020, an Alberta cleaning company told its employees to download an app that would monitor their whereabouts while at work. The app, called Blip, uses GPS to generate a virtual boundary that detects when an employee enters or leaves the work site.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for tools to track employees? Here are some software choices. Should you do it? Read up on the legalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[76],"class_list":{"0":"post-9970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr","7":"tag-hr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9970\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}