Monitoring software produces numbers that look like evidence, and those numbers are ending up in disciplinary files. Here is what the research says surveillance does to trust and behaviour, and how to use monitoring data without causing conflict.
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Discipline & Conflict Psychology
Punishment, fairness, difficult conversations, performance improvement plans and conflict between colleagues.
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- Updated Nov 12, 2026
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