According to a recent article, privacy concerns have risen at CBC after sensitive employee data was released on the company’s online HR site.
According to the National Post, information on employees’ sexual orientation, gender identity, and religion unexpectedly appeared on their Workday HR profiles last week, just after the TV firm embraced the Microsoft platform.
As part of its equality, diversity, and inclusion policy, CBC/Radio-Canada invited employees to participate in a voluntary “cultural census” last year.
The Crown company assured that the information employees provided for the “culture census” was “totally secret,” but the workers never anticipated such data to be displayed on their HR profiles.
One CBC employee who identifies as LGBTQ was surprised to read such information on Workday.
“I was really taken aback,” the worker told the National Post. “This was meant to be merely statistical data, unrelated to our profiles.”
Another employee called this a “betrayal” of the employees’ confidence.
“It appears that management duped us into disclosing highly sensitive information in the pretext of boosting diversity.”
