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The pandemic has accelerated the provision of teleworking and in several fields of activity, it is even estimated that workers will not return to a model of face-to-face work and will start to alternate telework with work on site. However, separating personal and business information stored in electronic devices has become a real challenge. In an opinion piece for IT Channel magazine, Maria Barbosa, Head of the Labour Department at CCA, talks about the current difficulties in partitioning personal and professional life, and the risks of breach of the employer’s confidential information and violation of the worker’s confidentiality reserve.
"At Present, the dining table or telescope desk is confused with the workplace, and the ZOOM call between family members alternates with business meetings. Thus, the use of company tools made available to the worker or personal tools provided by the worker for the purposes of teleworking merge into a complicated web, in which the risks of violation of the confidential information of the employer and of violation of the reserve of intimacy of the worker’s private life become more intense", stresses Maria Barbosa.
The need to protect trade secrets in a digital world, at a distance, has become a real nightmare for the employer and, in turn, the concern to protect the personal information saved and used on the device has become urgent for the worker. The head of the Labour Department thus declares that "it is urgent to find technological solutions that are simple and accessible to all, which allow the employer and the worker to guarantee the confidentiality of the information obtained in the context of teleworking".
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