India, Aug. 21 -- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reportedly started using a monitoring tool on company laptops. This has raised questions about what employee activity the company can see and how that information is being used.

Reports say the tool can show which applications employees use and how much time they spend on them. This has led to concerns about whether the tool is being used only to keep company systems secure or also to monitor employees' work activity. TCS has denied tracking individual employees. The company says its tools are used to check overall network performance, security, and availability.

Company laptops are often connected to important business systems and may contain access to customer information, internal...