Service photographs employees every 5 minutes to ensure they're working

In our current work-from-home era, many employers are searching for inventive methods to keep productivity up.

One growing solution, an always-on group video chat tool called “Sneek,” .

Is dividing people for its unconventional method of ensuring employee engagement from afar.

The service allows employees to easily see their teammates presented neatly in a “wall of faces”.

The grid keeps itself updated by snapping photos of each participant at pre-determined intervals between one and five minutes long.

The idea of always being monitored by employers via webcam isn’t sitting well with some people.

Danish programmer David Heinemeier Hansson tweeted that the concept “makes my skin crawl”.

One user wrote, “If you don’t trust your employees to be productive, why did you hire them?”