A study on employee monitoring showed that a 3rd of employees said their employers are tracking them with GPS tracking device.
On the other hand, 22% of employees said they were not informed they were being tracked.
in addition, a GPS tracking device is able to track employees location at any time.
This includes the movements, the idling time and so on.
Although GPS tracking is considered legal in states, the number of employees who object to this remains unknown.
What are the Best Practices for Tracking?
Companies are using fleet tracking devices for many reasons, efficiency increase, safety, or obeying traffic laws.
If a business owner wants to install the best GPS, the first thing to do is to consider obeying the following practices:
- Use GPS in company-owned vehicles or devices
- Make sure you have a written GPS tracking policy
- Monitor employees by business need only
