UAE employee monitoring and compliance #1: remote working

Despite the gradual return of employees to the workplace, employers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) face continuing challenges around improving productivity and compliance with company policies among their remote workers.

Freshfields’ global investigations lawyer Zara Merali in Dubai is joined by Sundaraparipurnan Narayanan from business advisory firm Nexdigm (SKP) and Shiraz Sethi from law firm DWF to discuss the:

• challenges employers are facing;
• regulatory framework, pitfalls and responses; and
• best practices for employers to focus on now.