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Re: The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

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Post by HeyLaughingBoy » Mon, Nov 06, 2017, 7:58 PM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #17

Is this article a joke? "Last year an employee at an IT services company sent a private chat message to a friend at work worried that he had just shared his sexual identity with his manager in a meeting and fearing he’d face career reprisal. Wiretap detected the employee’s concern and alerted a senior company exec who was then able to intervene, talk to the manager and defuse the situation." What. the. fuck. thanks "…

MY manager actually warned me about this when I gave him notice that I was leaving my last job. "Don't suddenly download a whole lot of stuff because they have some tool that tracks it and it looks like you're stealing IP to take with you."

Sure, he agreed it was stupid, but nothing he could do about it.

Re: The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

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Post by PeachPlum » Mon, Nov 06, 2017, 9:14 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #36

PeachPlum wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is to provide terminals with only access to work tools. No-one plays Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till (cue someone finding a photo of someone playing Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till)

How about a chip and pin terminal playing Tetris? https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2006/12/24/chip-pin-term...

Thank you for fulfilling my prophecy

Re: The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

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Post by mmagin » Mon, Nov 06, 2017, 11:08 PM UTC

“If you are a parent and you have a teenage son or daughter coming home late and not doing their homework you might wonder what they are doing. It’s the same as employees.”

Uhh, no. Employees are adults.

Re: The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

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Post by PeachPlum » Tue, Nov 07, 2017, 8:09 AM UTC

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #19

PeachPlum wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is to provide terminals with only access to work tools. No-one plays Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till (cue someone finding a photo of someone playing Solitaire on a supermarket checkout till)

The solution is to hire people that care about their job, or at least people who are accountable for their output. Difficult in a supermarket checkout scenario though.

Hiring people who care and keeping them in that mindset is hard, especially at scale.

32.9% of U.S. employees "engaged" in workplace in February (2015)

http://news.gallup.com/poll/181895/employee-engagement-reach...

and from a 2014 report

http://www.aon.com/attachments/human-capital-consulting/2014...

There are signs that the employee value proposition is breaking down. Perceptions of internal brand alignment have decreased 4 percentage points in the last two years. More employees are saying positive things about their organization and striving to go above and beyond. Engagement overall has increased, but the global element signifying intent to “Stay” with their companies has shown no change. Employees are engaging more, but only a little over half see a long-term path with their current company and fewer see a compelling value proposition to keep their talents with the current company.