By Karunjit Singh
NEW DELHI: Facial recognition could soon jump from your smartphone to your workplace with employers using it to mark attendance and gauge the mood of the workforce.
Tech Mahindra, the fifth-largest Indian IT services company by revenue, has launched a facial-recognition system for employees at its Noida office. Employees can now mark their attendance using swipe cards or they can simply look into the new facial-recognition terminal and sign in.
Tech Mahindra chief people officer Harshvendra Soin said the tool would help the organisation measure the mood of employees when they use the system through a functionality called “moodometer”.
The system can recognise nine different facial expressions. It captures the expression on the face of the employees every time he or she uses the system and consolidates the information from all employees daily to create a moodometer score, which reflects the mood of the workforce.
“(Most) organisations do an employee survey once a year but great workplaces do it every single day. We will know locationwise what your moodometer is and if it falls or goes up, it’s either an alarm or something that has gone right” said Soin. All employees who are using facial recognition have given consent which could be revoked at any time.
NEW DELHI: Facial recognition could soon jump from your smartphone to your workplace with employers using it to mark attendance and gauge the mood of the workforce.
Tech Mahindra, the fifth-largest Indian IT services company by revenue, has launched a facial-recognition system for employees at its Noida office. Employees can now mark their attendance using swipe cards or they can simply look into the new facial-recognition terminal and sign in.
Tech Mahindra chief people officer Harshvendra Soin said the tool would help the organisation measure the mood of employees when they use the system through a functionality called “moodometer”.
The system can recognise nine different facial expressions. It captures the expression on the face of the employees every time he or she uses the system and consolidates the information from all employees daily to create a moodometer score, which reflects the mood of the workforce.
“(Most) organisations do an employee survey once a year but great workplaces do it every single day. We will know locationwise what your moodometer is and if it falls or goes up, it’s either an alarm or something that has gone right” said Soin. All employees who are using facial recognition have given consent which could be revoked at any time.