Current sophisticated technologies in the workplace offer inexpensive and user-friendly devices and the means to control ‘on-the-job’ behaviour. This promises high profitability, productivity and liability alleviation. Yet, it also gives rise to a socio-ethical crisis of incessant surveillance that often overrules its anticipated benefits and motives of control and care. The dilemma is twofold: First, scholarly studies undertaken on this issue from a principally administrative and legal point of view tend to lack a moral framework and so prove unable to offer an integral understanding. Second, a majority of scholars tend to focus exclusively on individual rights, such as privacy, even at the risk of overlooking its social impact and consequences. This paper thus aims to unravel these forgotten moral and social concerns. It analyses the surveillance frameworks and the arguments for and against it; scrutinises critically the technological devices most often implemented in the workplace; examines both its individual effects (privacy) and social effects (categorising); and proposes an ethics of workplace surveillance in a framework of trust and transparency. It argues, in all these ways, for an alteration or modification of traditional organisational behaviour within a new frame of reference, situated within and going beyond questions of moral duty, principles and legal compliance.

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隐私及其他：“在职”监视的社会道德关注

当前工作场所中的先进技术提供了廉价且用户友好的设备，以及控制“在职”行为的手段。这保证了较高的获利能力，生产率和减轻的责任。但是，这也引起了持续监视的社会伦理危机，这经常会破坏其预期的利益以及控制和护理的动机。困境是双重的：首先，从行政和法律的角度对这一问题进行的学术研究往往缺乏道德框架，因此无法提供完整的理解。其次，即使有忽视其社会影响和后果的风险，大多数学者也倾向于只关注诸如隐私之类的个人权利。因此，本文旨在阐明这些被遗忘的道德和社会问题。它分析了监测框架及其支持和反对的理由；严格审查工作场所最常使用的技术设备；检查其个人影响（隐私）和社会影响（分类）；并在信任和透明的框架内提出了工作场所监督的道德规范。它以所有这些方式主张在一种新的参照框架内改变或修改传统的组织行为，这种参照框架位于道德责任，原则和法律合规性问题之内并且超出了这些范围。并在信任和透明的框架内提出了工作场所监督的道德规范。它以所有这些方式主张在一种新的参照框架内改变或修改传统的组织行为，这种参照框架位于道德责任，原则和法律合规性问题之内并且超出了这些范围。并在信任和透明的框架内提出了工作场所监督的道德规范。它以所有这些方式主张在一种新的参照框架内改变或修改传统的组织行为，这种参照框架位于道德责任，原则和法律合规性问题之内并且超出了这些范围。