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Even bosses are appalled at how much companies are spying on staff at home

Surveillance experts and bank bosses are expressing concern that any permanent tools to track traders might overdo it on the privacy front — and could backfire

Tuesday, 7 July 2020 at 07:03

Even bosses are appalled at how much companies are spying on staff at home
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When thousands of City workers were suddenly forced to do highly regulated trading from their homes, it was perhaps inevitable there would be problems. 

Among the biggest: compliance. How to track, monitor and record makeshift home offices in a way that can replicate a real-life trading floor has been keeping corporate watchdogs up at night.