#remote-workforce

#remote-workforce

About 96% of remote companies use some kind of employee monitoring software, according to a survey.Three in four companies have fired employees over data from the monitoring software.More than two-thirds of the respondents said employees have quit, citing the surveillance.Companies still have trust issues about employee productivity, even three years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced workers to work remotely or in a hybrid setting.

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically changed the nature of work for many in Alabama, and for some altogether eliminated a commute.And in one Alabama county, more than one in every 10 workers were still remote deep into the pandemic.In Shelby County, a suburban county south of Birmingham, 11% of workers during the five-year period ending in 2021 worked from home, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau.