When Employees Self-monitor and Self-enhance, what does HR do?

Employ­ees, Mea­sure Your­selves (Wall Street Journal):

- “For exam­ple, there’s Lumos­i­ty, from Lumos Labs Inc., an online sys­tem that serves up games employ­ees can play dur­ing down­time at work. … The dif­fer­ence is track­ing. The games offer a score­card of your per­for­mance and let you fol­low changes in per­for­mance over time, so you can see if you’re get­ting bet­ter or backsliding.”

- “Anoth­er approach is track­ing how your body works over the course of a work­day with a tool such as the emWave2, from Heart­Math LLC, which mon­i­tors your pulse. You can then look at your stats on a desk­top dash­board to see, for instance, what sorts of sit­u­a­tions cause you the most stress. The pro­gram can then rec­om­mend ways to reduce anx­i­ety, such as breath­ing tech­niques that can help you reduce your heart rate dur­ing a big presentation.”

- “Track­ing things at this inti­mate lev­el might set off all sorts of alarm bells for work­ers. Many might won­der if an employ­er could get hold of the infor­ma­tion and use it against them. So boss­es should ensure that work­ers have the chance to encrypt or oth­er­wise pro­tect their data.”

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