Your Boss Is Watching You: Work-From-Home Boom Leads To More Surveillance

[GURPS]

After two weeks of working from her Brooklyn apartment, a 25-year-old e-commerce worker received a staffwide email from her company: Employees were to install software called Hubstaff immediately on their personal computers so it could track their mouse movements and keyboard strokes, and record the webpages they visited.

They also had to download an app called TSheets to their phones to keep tabs on their whereabouts during work hours.

"There are five of us. And we always came to work. We always came on time. There was no reason to start location-tracking us," the woman told NPR. She spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing she could lose her job.

Company emails that she provided to NPR show her employer believed the tracking software would improve the team's productivity and efficiency while everyone was working from home.

Such rationales are increasingly ringing throughout workplaces nationwide.





just because it is not illegal, that does not make it right

 

[PeoplesElbow]

I'd have a burner phone just for that if it was a condition of employment.

 

[DaSDGuy]

After two weeks of working from her Brooklyn apartment, a 25-year-old e-commerce worker received a staffwide email from her company: Employees were to install software called Hubstaff immediately on their personal computers so it could track their mouse movements and keyboard strokes, and record the webpages they visited.

They also had to download an app called TSheets to their phones to keep tabs on their whereabouts during work hours.

"There are five of us. And we always came to work. We always came on time. There was no reason to start location-tracking us," the woman told NPR. She spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing she could lose her job.

Company emails that she provided to NPR show her employer believed the tracking software would improve the team's productivity and efficiency while everyone was working from home.

Such rationales are increasingly ringing throughout workplaces nationwide.





just because it is not illegal, that does not make it right

And you thought big brother gave up after 1984? Its still here, including revisionist history efforts like destroying 100 year old monuments to people because you don't like what they stood for.

 

[Louise]

And you thought big brother gave up after 1984? Its still here, including revisionist history efforts like destroying 100 year old monuments to people because you don't like what they stood for.

That was fiction. We are now living in the non fiction of that fiction. I wish it all was imaginary. Don’t forget Lord of the Flies that was published in 1954 by Golding 4 years later. Big Bro and fly lords is appropriate for our present day situation. How did they know and I wish they were still here for their input. And, I read today that thousands of pounds of slaughtered pigs are rotting in a pile somewhere. They will join the slaughtered unused chickens in Heaven. God bless them for giving their life for nothing, and God bless the USA. I hope our brave military did not give up their lives for nothing.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/pigs-rot-in-compost

 

[SamSpade]

I'm always cognizant of the fact my time on my work computer belongs to my employer; my emails can and will be scanned and read by something if not someone; that anything I say can be used against me. ANY place I visit while on my work computer WILL be scrutinized. And so forth. I've known this for years - many years ago in the early days of the Internet at work, guys thought they could go to porn sites so long as no one noticed - seemingly unaware that wherever they went appeared on the server. And it got examined.

Similarly I found that my visits to Usenet - newsgroups which have become passe - were also observed. I stopped visiting fan sites and kept it close to work related material.

Since I now use a work provided laptop - my laptop NEVER goes anywhere but work related stuff - I have plenty of other computers in my office that are not connected to work or the same server. But I also take the precaution to cover the camera - it's not enough to "turn it off". I don't want anyone spying on me, especially after hours. Because somebody WILL.