Some reasons why employers and workplaces may shape the early governance of wearable technologies in society:
- Employers have duties and obligations in areas that are directly impacted by use of wearable technologies in the workplace. For example, safety, equality and data protection.
- Employers can identify and articulate specific harms that could arise from use of wearable technologies in the workplace. For example, harms arising from intimidation of staff, ‘chilling effects’ on organisational discourse, and breaches of confidential data.
- Organisational policies can adapt quicker than legislation to the challenges posed by wearable technologies; defining expectations relating to their use (or not) in the workplace, establishing norms that are adopted more widely in society, and providing experiences that inform development of legislation and guidance.
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