Testing Phase for Spotlight's Second Version
Embrace Spotlight: Your Privacy-Empowering, Union-Friendly Tool
The Prospect and Bectu teams from the UK took a deep dive into the potential uses of our upcoming privacy-respecting and worker-empowering tool, Spotlight, at a recent event. This outstanding app will launch in March!
Unions can enlist Spotlight in their crusades - monitor work hours, workplace app usage, commute time, and a myriad of other facets that improve transparency.
Your Data, Your Way!
Spotlight stands out by putting you in control of your data. No pesky third-party snooping or hidden surveillance. You choose which aspects of your life the app tracks: commute duration, working while commuting, work conditions, wellbeing, screen time, distances traveled, sitting habits, or anything else you deem important.
Plus, spend an inspiring afternoon discussing plans for worker tech, using #datagovernance, and joining forces with @CjColclough, @jonniepenn, @ProspectUnion, and @bectu teams. Let's work towards shaping the #futureofwork in favor of workers, as shared in this tweet by Andrew Pakes (@andrew4mk on January 23, 2020).
Spotlight: Wage Theft and Well-being
In union campaigns, whether solo or with colleagues, Spotlight will help you uncover whether your personal life is slipping away into work. Uncover wage-theft, a growing issue and top workplace crime in many countries. Experience relief as you break free from the "always-on" culture and manage to unplug from work. Spotlight is here to empower you!
The Young Workers Lab - UNI Global Union
Publicly available as an opensource app in April 2020, Spotlight is being developed by the Young Workers Lab team at UNI Global Union. A pioneering initiative, the Young Workers Lab aims to harness new technology to strengthen worker voices. Don't miss a chance to learn about our cutting-edge tech and union advisors!
Enrichment Insights
Tools like Spotlight focus on empowering workers by offering control over their data and maintaining privacy. They often provide transparency and consent, allowing workers to manage their data collection, usage, and sharing.
With Spotlight, you can track work hours, ensuring fair payment and work-life balance. It also monitors work app usage, offering insights into productivity and app effectiveness. By participating in data governance at the individual level, workers gain control over their data. Spotlight must comply with data protection regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA.
For unions, Spotlight offers valuable insights into work practices, helping protect workers' rights. It encourages collaboration between workers, management, and unions, promoting fair labor practices. By using data from these tools, unions can advocate for workers with greater conviction. Thanks to Spotlight, workers will gain transparency, control, improved productivity, and data-driven decision-making power.
- In the near future, Spotlight, a privacy-respecting and worker-empowering app, will launch, allowing users to make decisions about which aspects of their lifestyle - such as commute duration, work conditions, wellbeing, screen time, and distances traveled - the app tracks and monitors.
- With Spotlight, workers can take advantage of technology to enhance their careers, as it provides insights into productivity and app effectiveness by monitoring work app usage, ultimately promoting workplace-wellness and health-and-wellness.
- By using Spotlight, unions can gain a better understanding of work practices, advocating for workers' rights more effectively by using data-driven decision-making and fostering collaboration between workers, management, and unions, thereby promoting the development of a culture that values transparency and fair labor practices.
