{
  "title": "In Basel, does digital monitoring protect work?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-bale-la-surveillance-numerique-protege-t-elle-le-travail-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2025-02-04",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Tracing an operation and monitoring a person are not equivalent practices. Research invites us to examine what tracking systems make visible, but also the pressure they may create.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Psychosocial Risks",
  "place": {
    "name": "Basel",
    "region": "Bâle-Ville",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "John R."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: technology can also become intrusive",
      "point": "Ramakrishna Ayyagari, Varun Grover and Russell Purvis (2011, MIS Quarterly) examine relationships between technological characteristics, stressors and psychological strain."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that removing individual metrics is enough to prevent the risk."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "An experiment involving a bounded task does not reproduce the constraints of a regulated laboratory or a logistics terminal."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Bâle",
      "point": "As part of SHR’s “[Psychosocial Risks](/formation-risques-psychosociaux-bale)” programme, a Basel team can review the digital indicators actually used in its operational management meetings over two weeks, without changing required regulatory records."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Kolb",
      "year": "1995",
      "source": "Journal of Applied Psychology"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Purvis",
      "year": "2011",
      "source": "MIS Quarterly"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 396,
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    "en": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-bale-la-surveillance-numerique-protege-t-elle-le-travail-en",
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    "it": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/a-bale-la-surveillance-numerique-protege-t-elle-le-travail-it"
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}