New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- Employees at India's biggest IT firms fear they're being monitored by software, but the chief executive of a company making such activity trackers is tackling two concerns at once: privacy fears among staff at India's largest tech services firms, and the threat of those firms building the tools themselves.

Speaking to Mint last month, ProHance chief executive Ankur Dhingra said surveillance fears arise when the use of such software is "poorly communicated to employees."

"Think of it like a Fitbit, or think of it as an enabler that allows you to do your work from anywhere. So firstly, our software is fully in the end users' control. The end user can switch it off, suspend it, change it, and not use it if they are doi...