Working alone used to be something that meant trust and freedom. Your employer trusted you were where you were supposed to be and you had the freedom to do what you thought was important without them looking over your shoulder. We are selling an increasing number of personal tracking devices for lone workers and when I went to some of the meetings I was surprised at the employer's attitude.
I was expecting "we can see where they are" and "we can monitor their time on site" type of comments. It seems I am a little out of touch. The primary use of these devices is for health and safety. If you have a problem and you are the only cleaner in an office block out of hours who are you going to call - yes you can try the "Ghost Busters" (slight glimpse into my age there). In reality the 2 main issues are 1) you are hurt and not near a phone 2) you call someone, it is out of hours and they are not there.
The Panic alarm and location given by the Ranger is idea for this purpose and people work out very quickly that there is no fun in watching a screen with a location blip for more than a few seconds. So the message in the lone worker arena seems to be - No one is watching you, but they can find you if they need to.
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