Managing Employee Monitoring Without Destroying Trust: What Managers Need to Explain, Limit and Escalate

  • 28
  • October 2026
    Wednesday
  • 10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT

    Duration:  60  Mins

Level

Basic & Intermediate

Webinar ID

IQW26J1022

  • Common forms of employee monitoring, including productivity data, communications review, cameras, GPS, biometrics, wearables, and AI scoring.
  • How to connect monitoring to a clear, legitimate, and proportionate business purpose.
  • What managers should be able to explain about what is collected, why it is collected, how it is used, and who can access it.
  • The difference between a monitoring signal, a pattern that needs review, and reliable evidence for an employment decision.
  • How system errors, downtime, work design, role differences, disability, accommodation, leave, and approved breaks can change the meaning of the data.
  • Why hidden, inconsistent, or overly intrusive monitoring damages trust and encourages employees to work around the system.
  • How to avoid public ranking, constant checking, metric fixation, and punitive use of data without context.
  • Why sensitive monitoring data should be limited, protected, and shared only with people who need it.
  • How managers should verify concerns and use human review before acting on automated alerts, scores, or summaries.
  • How to respond when employees question monitoring, accuracy, fairness, privacy, or the impact on working conditions.
  • When to involve Human Resources, employee relations, compliance, privacy, legal, information security, technology, or labor-relations specialists.
  • A practical explain-limit-review-escalate checklist for managers using monitoring information.

Overview of the webinar

Workplace monitoring now includes productivity dashboards, activity logs, call recording, cameras, location tracking, email and message review, wearable devices, attendance systems, and AI-generated performance signals. These tools may serve legitimate operational, security, safety, or compliance purposes, but managers often receive the data without enough guidance on how to explain it, interpret it, or use it fairly.

This workshop gives managers, Human Resources professionals, and compliance-aware leaders a practical framework for handling employee monitoring without turning normal oversight into unmanaged surveillance. It covers the manager’s role in explaining the purpose and boundaries of monitoring, distinguishing a useful signal from proof of poor performance or misconduct, checking context before acting, protecting sensitive information, and preserving meaningful human review. Participants will also learn how to respond to employee questions, recognize accommodation or discrimination concerns, and escalate issues involving privacy, labor relations, legal requirements, technology, or security. The session provides management and compliance awareness rather than state-specific legal advice.

Who should attend?

  • Managers
  • Supervisors
  • Team Leaders
  • Department Heads
  • Operations Managers 
  • Human Resources Professionals
  • Employee Relations Professionals
  • Compliance and Ethics Professionals
  • Privacy professionals
  • Security leaders and Workforce Analytics Teams

Why should you attend?

Monitoring data can look objective while missing context, producing false positives, or disadvantaging employees whose work does not fit the metric. When managers cannot explain what is being measured or treat a dashboard as proof, trust drops and privacy, discrimination, accommodation, and employee-relations risks increase. This session helps managers use monitoring information with clearer limits and better judgment.

 

Faculty - Mr.Lukasz Kalinowski

Lukasz Kalinowski is an Executive Coach, Leadership Trainer and former General Manager with over 18 years' experience in leadership, operations and management. His background includes leading large teams, managing high-pressure commercial environments, and supporting senior leaders, managers and business owners across the UK, US, Europe and the UAE.His work focuses on practical leadership: difficult conversations, accountability, conflict at work, resilience, change fatigue, decision-making under pressure and helping teams adopt Artificial Intelligence without fear, confusion or unnecessary extra work. Lukasz combines senior operational experience with executive coaching to deliver sessions that are clear, direct and immediately useful for busy professionals.

Credits

ComplianceIQ is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for [1] PDCs for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

HR (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). Please make note of the activity ID number on your recertification application form. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org

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