Everyone knows not to use a company computer for personal stuff.
If you’re curious put some electrical tape over the camera.
They have little lens covers for that too. Don’t let your computer go to sleep is a minimum.
Here’s a helpful little hint from Jeffrey Toobin.
Don’t go jacking off. You never know when you’ll get caught on camera masturbating in front of 100 million people.
The company issued me a webcam with a built in lens cover. I don’t even have to use post-it notes any more.
They do measure productivity - how long you are on a particular screen, how much you process each day. And they even offered an approved set of backgrounds to use on video calls.
If they started pulling this crap, they’d get a lot of nice pictures of the dogs
When I worked that keystroke thing seemed symbolically rotten. Bosses have little to do usually in my experience but the thought of them casually spying was abhorrent to me.
But I first read in a Time or Newsweek in a waiting room in probably 1985 that companies were sending messages to workers on computers during the day saying “The worker next to you is working 14% faster and 5 workers have completed 41% more work today than you.” It has gotten worse.
unless you are doing data entry, i fail to see how many keystrokes an hour is relative to productivity
Surreptitiously recording audio or video like this is in some states illegal.
The only good news out of this story is that the folks who conceived of ‘sneak’ had read 1984.
Nobody that I know would want to have someone snitching every time the person took a break.
I thought one of the perks of working from home was that you get to work nekkid? I guess not, huh?
Who watches the bosses?
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IT stuff like this is used quite often as a substitute for actually managing your employees.
On the other hand, if a manager doesn’t have this sort of backup, any discipline will be turned around on them as “harassment” or “racism/sexism”.
What I want to know if there are folks who are able to hold multiple telework gigs down at the same time and get two paychecks.
It’s a brave new world. If you manage people, a good many of them will behave like children.
Josef Stalin is spinning in his grave with envy...
Wonder how many have two computers side by side, one for each of their full-time work from home jobs? It would just take a little balancing, like having a mistress when you’re married.
My laptop is closed unless I’m actively involved in a Teams call. My camera shows nothing, so I won’t be caught picking my nose.
When I worked I had three screens side by side. Two were for work and the third was my personal computer. Had two mini keyboards which fit well on the desk workspace. Any outside work surfing was done on the personal one.
A peice of electric tape does amazing things to block their snooping.
If you don’t want the spyware go to the office. If I hired people to work at home I would expect them to actually work. I do a lot of consulting from home and have my skype on when my clients expect me to be at the computer working on their projects. I would expect the same.