Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
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#2Employers asking to install this junk on personal devices seems like an over reach.
Maybe some bored software developer could create the "uBlock of employee trackers". A program that would feed fake data into these trackers to make them unreliable for employers.
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#3just watch this video when you think you're being surveiled >> https://youtu.be/7YvAYIJSSZY
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#4It's being done by the same clowns who can't live without time clock cards, all sorts of monitoring,and tracking.These are the people who have no clue how to manage people,how to measure their work and act upon results.These are the same crappy companies who would rather ask their staff to email endless Excel spreadsheets to each other instead of investing some money in database or some crm system. In a nutshell,these are the bottom feeders of this world.
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#5I think this is a situation where employees need to leave the company. We vote with our choices. If we don't deem this to be appropriate, we must respond in kind. It's not simple and not everyone has the choice, but for those that can, should.
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#6I think this is a situation where employees need to leave the company. We vote with our choices. If we don't deem this to be appropriate, we must respond in kind. It's not simple and not everyone has the choice, but for those that can, should.
Or regulate. Consider that your same argument was applies to e.g. the 40-hour workweek, and workplace safety standards in the US. We quite rightly decided not to leave such things to the market because in practice the labor market is FAR from perfect.
Re: Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance
#7Employers asking to install this junk on personal devices seems like an over reach. Maybe some bored software developer could create the "uBlock of employee trackers". A program that would feed fake data into these trackers to make them unreliable for employers.
BYOD must not require spyware, period. Companies that do it are too cheap to provide corporate equipment and too insecure to trust their own employees observable output.
An open video stream to employees workstation could be reasonable if there is suspicion of fraud, like outsourcing their work to untrusted 3rd parties. It's not too unlike having an employee in the office. Though even in office employees have some expectations of privacy, like not exposing their home life or bathroom routines. Of course a company device would still need to be provided.
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#8I think this is a situation where employees need to leave the company. We vote with our choices. If we don't deem this to be appropriate, we must respond in kind. It's not simple and not everyone has the choice, but for those that can, should.
A lot of people aren't in a position where they can quit their job and spend a few months looking for a new one. And in the US there's no safety net.
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#9I think this is a situation where employees need to leave the company. We vote with our choices. If we don't deem this to be appropriate, we must respond in kind. It's not simple and not everyone has the choice, but for those that can, should.
Or regulate. Consider that your same argument was applies to e.g. the 40-hour workweek, and workplace safety standards in the US. We quite rightly decided not to leave such things to the market because in practice the labor market is FAR from perfect.
Regulation is the opposite of exercising freedom you already have
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#10Another concrete example against our "tech will solve everything" tendencies.