Managers turn to surveillance software, always-on webcams to ensure employees are (really) working from home - Goodbye privacy.

[Joey Caruso]

Does anyone really work better with someone constantly watching over their shoulder? Being under the gun like that would obviously be occupying quite a bit of your mind that could be better used for actually working, and this looks like it'd cause the same issues only much worse.

Also willing to bet that a lot of the managers demanding this either really need an excuse to seem like they're actually useful (as others have stated earlier in this thread) or they just really wanted an excuse to play voyeur with their employees. Either way, pretty freaky ain't it?

 

[CrunkLord420]

Employers should be required to provide work computers if they want to use any sort of remote administration tool. It's absolutely not appropriate to ask employees to install this type of stuff on personal equipment.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

just periodically check if the volume of completed work meets your standards. software devs have version control systems that allow you to easily track the contributions of each individual developer, i'm sure other workplaces can come up with something similar too.

We both know that's not what they really want to know about you. They want to know personal life shit, as in they want to know that you don't have any whatsoever.

 

[tehpope]

just periodically check if the volume of completed work meets your standards. software devs have version control systems that allow you to easily track the contributions of each individual developer, i'm sure other workplaces can come up with something similar too.

Too fucking hard. Its "easier" this way. It's just giving managers and supervisors busy work to do while getting high off the fact that you're lording over someone.

 

[Niggernerd]

Just have a drawing of a stick figure you working at a desk and tape it on the camera.

 

[Niggaplease]

We both know that's not what they really want to know about you. They want to know personal life shit, as in they want to know that you don't have any whatsoever.

we're getting pretty Orwellian with this shit.

 

[Dimetrodon]

This seems like one of those situations where the bottom line is all that matters. Is the person getting their work done on time or not? If they are, who cares what else they're doing?

 

[Pissmaster]

There's gotta be rule 34 of the 4th Amendment getting gangraped by now

 

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IM us if it ever went to the away status.

This is what you want

cerebrate/mousejiggler

Mouse Jiggler is a very simple piece of software whose sole function is to "fake" mouse input to Windows, and jiggle the mouse pointer back and forth. - cerebrate/mousejiggler

github.com

This seems like one of those situations where the bottom line is all that matters. Is the person getting their work done on time or not? If they are, who cares what else they're doing?

Admittedly a lot of the victims of this sort of behavior are probably doing pink-collar jobs where they objectively have no actual work product.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Does anyone really work better with someone constantly watching over their shoulder? Being under the gun like that would obviously be occupying quite a bit of your mind that could be better used for actually working, and this looks like it'd cause the same issues only much worse.