Chapter 7: Application of Wearable Technology in Enhancing Workforce Performance

Wearable technology in human resource management (HRM) has brought about significant changes in the monitoring, support, and improvement of employees’ well-being at the workplace. This chapter examines the opportunity that e-HRM offers in enhancing wellness and performance of employees through wearable technology. With help of tracking health status, stress levels, and organization of individual health improving programs, companies can create conditions in workplace which also reflect concern for the health of an employee. With reference to the roles of wearable devices in the dynamic changes of the working world, such insights help the intended audiences, including HR practitioners, future researchers, and government policymakers, to develop a better understanding of the multifaceted implications of technology health and employee performance in the 21st century.