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Revealed: UK Covid contact tracers working from abroad

Caseworkers made to turn on ‘geo-tracking’ over concerns about personal data leaving UK

Some contact tracers working on the UK’s test and trace system are thought to have been working from abroad, the Guardian has learned, with one company resorting to tracking its employees’ locations.

Intelling, hired through outsourcing firm Serco and employing about 500 staff members, makes its workers turn on “geo-tracking” owing to concerns that some have been doing their job remotely from overseas.

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