A Senate committee is considering updates to work policies as many federal employees continue to work from home—and the issue of productivity is a “key question,” said Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain.
“We know that it is an issue for many government, public, as well as private, enterprises,” she said during a meeting of the standing committee on internal economy on March 30.
Senator Scott Tannas suggested employee contracts under the new policy should include an agreement to submit to productivity monitoring.
He referred broadly to technology that may monitor and analyse keyboard activity, mouse movement, and other data related to work-at-home productivity….