When it comes monitoring employees at workplace, employers have always been on the lookout for penetrative technologies that could help them create a more authoritative system of scrutinizing employee performance. Now, a new product called the Exmocare BT2 Monitoring System has been introduced and it can be simply described as the most advanced (read extreme) employee monitoring system that has been ever created. The reason lies in its incisive method of examining an employee’s psychological conditioning towards the task he has been assigned. No,

this device is not about checking the forms that have been filled within a given timeframe or check the number of times a certain person went out for unwarranted coffee breaks. The BT2 takes employee monitoring across threshold that has never been challenged until now.

The BT2 has been designed in such a manner that it can create statically-precise, highly-indicative reports which can help business managers better understand the kind of emotional state that the employee maintains when completing his assigned duties. This essentially means that even if you are someone who can do his/her work without necessarily liking it or with extremely low levels of motivation, the BT2 can make a suggestive indication of this to your employer. It is needless to suggest that from an employee’s perspective, this technology is from the deepest depths of Hell — the BT2 has to be worn like a wristband and any employee, no matter how audacious in his attitude towards organizational authority, is bound to feel being watched-over like a research lab subject. Further, there is always a conscious fear of not letting your mind wander-off or feeling too bored with your work because the BT2 is there to keep recording these mood swings as ‘negative’ work behavior.

However, this is not the first time that emotion-tracking devices have been suggested. Many universities have been approached with the utility of using emotion-tracking tutoring softwares. These are configured to analyze a student’s attention span, which helps to decode their level of comprehending the taught subject and any kind of frustration. Such use of emotion-analyzing technology is still constructive and does make a lot of sense, as it could make a serious difference to maintaining student concentration, particularly across distance-mode educational curriculums.

Another very productive application of a similar technology is being preached for marketing and advertising analyzers. Here, a proposed marketing campaign is put forth a few individuals who are being tracked with a special software that is capable of tracking individual attention and emotional tracking. It is believed that this is a cost-effective way to evaluate the impact of a proposed ad campaign and is much more efficient than any other eye-tracking technology that is currently being used by some advertising firms.

Coming back to Exmocare’s BT2, it seems fair to comment that only those managements or business owners who are intent on harassing their employees would endorse its use. As if trying to deal with the day-to-day domestic issues, workplace pressures and demanding bosses wasn’t enough, now people would have to deal with this technology that has been created to spy on the only thing that remains sacredly personal in contemporary times — the human mind.

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