Journal
APPLIED ERGONOMICS
Volume 102, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103739
Keywords
Mental workload; Monitoring; Privacy concerns
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Funding
- European Union [826232]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy [EXC-2023, 390621612]
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This study surveyed 702 managers from three European countries to investigate their expectations and concerns regarding sensor-based monitoring of employee mental workload. The data showed that expectations for workplace design improvements and employee well-being were strongly associated with managers' willingness to support workload monitoring. However, privacy concerns were identified as a significant barrier to the acceptance of workload monitoring.
Although the objective assessment of mental workload has been a focus of human factors research, few studies have investigated stakeholders' attitudes towards its implementation in real workplaces. The present study addresses this research gap by surveying N = 702 managers in three European countries (Germany, United Kingdom, Spain) about their expectations and concerns regarding sensor-based monitoring of employee mental workload. The data confirm the relevance of expectations regarding improvements of workplace design and employee well-being, as well as concerns about restrictions of employees' privacy and sovereignty, for the implementation of workload monitoring. Furthermore, Bayesian regression models show that the examined expectations have a substantial positive association with managers' willingness to support workload monitoring in their company. Privacy concerns are identified as a significant barrier to the acceptance of workload monitoring, both in terms of their prevalence among managers and their strong negative relationship with monitoring support.
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