Are People Analytics Dehumanizing Your Employees?

Data is being used to measure and shape workdays. An evidence-based approach to increase the organization's efficiency and productivity is one of the things people analytics uses. Increased monitoring can cause stress, reduce trust, and even cause employees to act less ethically if the goal is to increase productivity. Adoption of employee monitoring tools is quickly increasing. Companies that want to ethically and successfully deploy people analytics should do three things: 1) make clear that analytics aren't a step towards automation, 2) seekholistic applications that encourage employee growth rather than focusing on narrow productivity metrics, and 3) avoid labeling or treating employees as pieces of data

Organizations used to be made up of people. They include data today. As companies learn to mine their data to better identify new opportunities, improve predictions, and make better decisions, interest has shifted from the humans who do the work to data on what they do during work hours. In particular, employee data is being used more and more in human resources management and workers are becoming defined in terms of their data