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Jobs requiring national security clearance or the equivalent will also obviously monitor all activity. It’s usually their equipment anyway, including the phone, so you have no notion of privacy.
With all the companies I've worked for, it's been made known that they can track what you've been doing on their equipment and their networks, and that they can audit this and even turn this over to law enforcement if need be, so nothing new there. There's no expectation of privacy. I WFH every now and then, and it's the same deal... their laptop, VPN into their network. Our IT guy felt the need to remind all of us not to be visiting PornHub on there
One thing that would irk me is if they're accessing the microphone and camera to keep track of us while we're WFH (the model I'm using has neither).
Whoopy doo. So they can monitor us. It doesn't mean it's for the betterment of the company, not is it advantageous to good relations between employees/employers
A healthy company won't hide behind sneak tactics, and throw down scare tactics / threats. If that's important to them, they'll be missing the other side of it and rotting relationships, which will blow up bigger in the end than whatever they're trying to prevent.
I know I have absolutely nothing to hide. I stand by my work 100%, 100% of the time. If they want to be paranoid, oh well. It will only work against them.
What this really is is that employers are more distant now with WHF, and can't breathe over our shoulders and micromanage in person, so they have to do it externally. It makes them feel tough and macho in their diminishing roles.
Truth. This only serves to create a massive amount of distrust between the two sides. I can only see it being remotely effective in fields where turnover is high, skills are low, and relationships with employees and future candidates are non-essential. As someone mentioned above, call centers come to mind. If a company like Google or Tesla implemented this, they'd probably collapse as a result of a talent vacuum.
What this really is is that employers are more distant now with WHF, and can't breathe over our shoulders and micromanage in person, so they have to do it externally. It makes them feel tough and macho in their diminishing roles.
My employer can track our performance the exact same way during WFH as they can if we are on site. Matrices, schedule adherence, and Quality Control grades on our calls. WFH didn't change the expectations for any of us.
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This only serves to create a massive amount of distrust between the two sides. I can only see it being remotely effective in fields where turnover is high, skills are low, and relationships with employees and future candidates are non-essential. As someone mentioned above, call centers come to mind. If a company like Google or Tesla implemented this, they'd probably collapse as a result of a talent vacuum.
