November 22, 2019

Everyone, it's Anthony Honesto and this is my drop of knowledge for today. It's a rainy Friday here in New York City. Just got back from Iceland. Wow, first time there. Actually had to Google search Iceland. Yeah. Kid from New York. What can I tell you today? I want to talk about this movement we're starting to see in HR where this idea of putting Fitbits in place, I think they're, you know, this hardware tracking kind of stuff. I've been reading a lot of articles around this on how to identify, you know, workers habits. And while I think it's a really interesting HR analytics opportunity, we're going to start getting into some really serious privacy issues. I mean, obviously with everything that's happening with gdpr, California is coming out in January with their own privacy, we're going to start seeing some of this spill into the workplace. And I wonder if some of these companies are ready for that kind of stuff. I think it's interesting. I mean if you're looking at digital footprints, it's interesting if people are opting in to these type of efforts like they would a Fitbit where it would help them personally increase and maybe in aggregate companies can take a look at things. But there's a general concern I have about people wearing certain devices and I know an associate of mine, Ben Waver over at Human AIDS does some of these things, but it's all opted in. I also think if we could figure out how to position these things to help employees in terms of their own performance because we all want to perform, exceed expectations and obviously get bonuses and commissions and stuff. So that's my drop of knowledge. We're thinking about this idea of hardware and tracking for employees. I'll see you next time. Bye.