Covid-19: The office after lockdown

Question 1

the new normal

Answer 1

previously unfamiliar situation that has become usual or normalised.
a phrase we hear a lot these days, meaning a previously unfamiliar situation that has become usual and expected.

But workplaces are having to change in this coronavirus era. Lots of companies are rushing to install technology to make offices and workplaces safer. Sensors that monitor our movements, smartphone apps that alert us if we get too close to workmates and even devices that take our temperature could all become the new normal

Question 2

Bluetooth

Answer 2

technology that allows computers, mobile phones and other devices to communicate with each other without being connected by wires.

The technology that we are offering is using Bluetooth wristbands or tags that people are wearing within the workplace which detect proximity events. When the proximity event has been recorded its been saved by the company in case they need to, further down the line, …

Question 3

proximity

Answer 3

something or someone being near to another thing or person. (Vicinity)

The technology that we are offering is using Bluetooth wristbands or tags that people are wearing within the workplace which detect proximity events. When the proximity event has been recorded its been saved by the company in case they need to, further down the line, ….

Question 4

down the line

Answer 4

at some point in the future.

The technology that we are offering is using Bluetooth wristbands or tags that people are wearing within the workplace which detect proximity events. When the proximity event has been recorded its been saved by the company in case they need to, further down the line, retrace the steps of a certain person who has been declared as infected and inform anyone else they may have been in contact with.

Question 5

for its own sake

Answer 5

done because it is interesting and enjoyable, not because it is necessary.

From a human rights perspective, you have to try to ask, are you trying to use tech for tech’s sake – is this actually going to facilitate an understanding of who is safe to go back to work or not?

Question 6

evidential justification

Answer 6

reasons why something is the right thing to do, based on evidence.

And if not, what’s the necessity of this because it’s such a significant interference with basic human rights. There has to be a high level of evidential justification to deploy this type of technology and I just don’t think it’s there.

Deploy in another words mean “use”