Nosy bosses snooping around your social media posts and other personal data? No problem for a growing number of workers, especially younger ones, a new study has found.
By 2022, nearly a third of people would be happy for their employer to have access to their personal data, such as social media profiles, according to the survey of 10,000 global workers and 500 human-resource professionals by business consulting firm PwC.
Younger people are especially willing to trade their personal information for a good job, the study concluded.
The research reveals that the younger generation are more open to sharing their personal data with their employees, with 36% of Generation Y workers saying they would be happy to do so, it said.
This attitude will be especially apparent at big corporations, the study found. At such firms, the contract with employees is defined by the handing over of data (e.g. health, performance, possibly even private life) in return for job security.
HR teams are already gearing up for these changes and are increasingly using data analytics to spot retention and performance issues, said Michael Rendell, PwC s global human-resource consulting leader in a press release. The main challenge for HR professionals will be convincing employees that the price of handing over their data and monitoring is one worth paying.
Photo of Facebook employees by Karl Mondon, Mercury News
