When you’re at work and using work devices, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Trust between employers and employees can’t happen if one is spying on the other.
Privacy should be protected by law, especially voyeuristic shit like monitoring someone’s WFH camera or microphone.
Companies need to use better metrics for measuring performance that make sense, and very little of what they collect through this spyware makes sense.
If the effort and resources spent on spying were put into training, tools to help employees succed, and fair pay, these businesses would be much better off.
The reality is, they are using this monitoring tech to find any reason to terminate an employee without paying severance. Unethical means to an unethical end.
Even under the GDPR, an employer can monitor you camera, mic, and keystrokes of they really want on a work device.
Seriously, no one is entitled to unlimited personal use, and explicit trust, of a work device. It’s a work-owned device, it’s not your shit! This isn’t hard. They give you the same “click/sign here” for a use policy that any social media site gives you (900 pages shorter). No one should be upset by this unless they are already behind the curve in general, or are pushing fake outrage.
Trust between employers and employees can’t happen if one is spying on the other.
Privacy should be protected by law, especially voyeuristic shit like monitoring someone’s WFH camera or microphone.
Companies need to use better metrics for measuring performance that make sense, and very little of what they collect through this spyware makes sense.
If the effort and resources spent on spying were put into training, tools to help employees succed, and fair pay, these businesses would be much better off.
The reality is, they are using this monitoring tech to find any reason to terminate an employee without paying severance. Unethical means to an unethical end.
Even under the GDPR, an employer can monitor you camera, mic, and keystrokes of they really want on a work device.
Seriously, no one is entitled to unlimited personal use, and explicit trust, of a work device. It’s a work-owned device, it’s not your shit! This isn’t hard. They give you the same “click/sign here” for a use policy that any social media site gives you (900 pages shorter). No one should be upset by this unless they are already behind the curve in general, or are pushing fake outrage.