The Rise of Workplace Surveillance
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The Rise of Workplace Surveillance
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#2Parodied very effectively in Snow Crash (1992), where one of the characters has to spend exactly the right amount of time reading a document. Too much would be deemed slacking; too little would be inattentiveness.
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#3I remember this post https://www.reddit.com/r/excel/comments/2jtd2f/worked_on_a_c....
This is what happens you try to calculate productivity with how much salary you get.
The poster make video player in excel to padding his clock time because he already finished his work in 1 hours and need 3 hours to appear busy.
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#5A bank I worked for last year rolled out monitoring software to all their IT staff. It recorded the window title of the application with focus on a regular schedule and kept this in a log somewhere. They said the results would only be used in aggregate, but that was treated with skepticism.
Also, the app does pop up with alerts every so often suggesting you take a yoga break so it is adding a lot of value. /Sarcasm
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#6It's only creepy when your employer does it, not when your social media platform does ;)
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#7If a workplace implemented this, this would create anxiety in their workers causing them to leave.
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#8These kind of tech has always been marketed to enterprises under various ruses. It's persistent. If the company happens to have immature control freaks in decision maker roles then they manage to sell.
Ultimately its culture and the decision makers get to decide. Monitoring is of course downwards and those making the decision do not get to be monitored in this intrusive fashion.
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#9I'd refuse to work anywhere that did this. It puts people on a treadmill they can't get off of.
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#10Obligatory link to Manna: