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I would quit the moment I found out something like this was being instituted. I think most companies that need to hire top talent know that these kinds of things drive away talent. So these practices tend to be relegated to a lower tier of companies/employers.
A lot of people are saying "not news worthy," but I think this is a far more useful article than the majority of articles posted here: - It's applicable to most people on this site - It's actionable: be conscious of what you use your company-issued computer for I'm convinced that most people aren't aware that this is a common practice. I've talked to people who think it's not possible or that their company doesn't do…
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Many also use it on computers owned by contractors, requiring its use to bill time.
In that case can't you just install it on a tiny vm on a server?
If you are working remotely they will give you a machine that VPNs into another machine.
As a company owner, I've resisted the temptation to do this. We did make it easy for our employees to behave themselves by making it very easy to 'clock in' and 'clock out.' I told everybody that this is a time to be close to family - if your child wants to play ball in the middle of the day, then go ahead! Just clock out before you do. Get your 8 hours in and document your work. Thankfully everybody has responded we…
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Or just play a full screen slide show of various spreadsheets and documents. Will they really study the screenshots that closely to see the repetition?
Sure, spot-check and scrutize a small fraction. (Not to say I endorse this means of tracking employees' time, I just don't think that's a big impediment to this method.)
As a company owner, I've resisted the temptation to do this. We did make it easy for our employees to behave themselves by making it very easy to 'clock in' and 'clock out.' I told everybody that this is a time to be close to family - if your child wants to play ball in the middle of the day, then go ahead! Just clock out before you do. Get your 8 hours in and document your work. Thankfully everybody has responded we…
Why is it tied to time, instead of deliverables? I mean, if I work extra hard to get the days work done in 4 hours, why can’t I leave early compared to a co-worker who is working less focused and more slowly? I get that it’s not easy to set good milestones, and to keep it fair in terms of making sure everyone has approximately equal work, but I feel the same problems exist with required work “time” especially since i…
Setting limits on how long people work could have a better impact in terms of work-life balance than being able to quit early once in a while.
I'm working on a product that logs everything you do on your computer super accurately, but when it comes down to submitting those activities the user can (actually often really needs to) clean them up first. The raw logged data doesn't leave the computer, the boss or client gets a version that might or might not be an accurate reflection of what the worker did. The most important thing is that you're able to "rememb…
Are you selling to the actual user? Usually stuff like this gets bought by the employer.
The trouble with taking screenshots is then you have to employ people to spend their day examining and evaluating the screenshots. Before computers could transcribe voice, the limiting factor of wiretapping is needing some poor schmuck who had to listen to all those utterly banal conversations, which has to be one of the worst jobs ever.
Is there a way to figure out if your machine does this? Is there a list of process names to look for or similar?