3 During the peak of the COVID-19 crisis, a company decided to use worker tracking technology to ensure their workers were maintaining social distancing and to enable contact tracing in the event a worker contracted the virus. Each worker was required to wear a location tracker, which logged his or her location continuously while on the job. The company has since decided to continue using the trackers in the interest of improving project safety. The company insists that the data provided by the trackers is valuable for preventing accidents and near misses but some workers feel the trackers pose a serious invasion of privacy.
• While workers might have accepted wearing trackers during the peak of the pandemic because they believed it to benefit their own personal health and safety, they might be unwilling to continue doing so once they perceive the urgency has passed. How might the company keep using the technology while addressing privacy concerns?
• Should there be consequences for workers who refuse to wear the trackers? Should the consequences be the same for long time versus new employees? For craft workers versus staff such as field engineers?