Posted on 01/28/2022 11:52:44 AM PST by ShadowAce
“If the work is getting done, why monitor?”
Indeed - if a business is measuring activity rather than outcomes, it’s incentivizing the wrong things.
This one won't. Then again, I'm my own S-Corp for that as well as other reasons.
I told the CEO of my current contract back in 2009, no vidcams, no screen scrapers, no keystoke monitors, no IP monitoring, nada, or I quit. I meant it then and I mean it now.
If I were to leave at this time, with my 13 years of amassed knowledge of both tools and product domain, it would be very damaging to my client's operations. Not that would stop some of these 'brightest and the best' running some companies. But for me, that's a Rubicon for them to cross.
Just say no. If you need my expertise, I’ll provide it. No cameras (except if and when I consent) and no keystrike monitors. You’ll have my output when it’s ready.
If you have a company owned laptop tape over the Camera. They can monit or every keystroke, screen and app you run. wrote an app to keep my activity details and added a no sleep feature.
That’s hardly enough anymore .
Right...
Trade secrets for one.
Yep. Jobs will go to India. Why put up with this crap from an American worker? Now he won’t even report to the office anymore? Adios. Your job is now outsourced to Mumbai.
Trade secrets aren’t protected by monitoring employee busyness.
“Your job is now outsourced to Mumbai.”
In my experience and that of other FReepers, most Mumbaians don’t know their *** from a hole in the ground.
About 2010 or 11, the counseling industry started doing “productivity monitoring.” They charted the number of words and lengths of chart entries. People did so much of this crap, they didn’t spend time with their clients. It was all about pleasing bureaucrats and insurance companies. I always stayed a step ahead of working at one of those.
“They charted the number of words and lengths of chart entries.”
Measuring outputs is great - but you have to measure the right things. A previous employer wanted to measure technical writer output - and first thought of word counts. I emphatically explained to my manager that this was a guaranteed recipe for bloated, unusable documentation. The idea was eventually nixed.
“If the work is getting done, why monitor?”
Because too many managers and supervisors are sadistic pricks who get their jollies by torturing the people who answer to them.
It’s people like this who keep legions of lawyers busy with harassment and hostile workplace lawsuits.
Main reason are most of them are bored and have nothing else to do. They have to justify their position somehow.
“If they don’t tolerate being monitored they will have to tolerate being replaced.”
Some people are not easily replaced. Especially these days when there’s competition for employees who can read, write, compute, and pass a drug test.
“and pass a drug test.”
I was never drug tested for any of my regular positions in the tech sector.
“I was never drug tested for any of my regular positions in the tech sector.”
If what you do requires a security clearance and requisite background check then you’d be drug tested.
No.
“Will remote tech workers tolerate being monitored?”
Only the ones wearing masks.
And there aren’t many of those, right? Right?
#3 At my last job in a Help Desk they were hiring people in India to take over after someone left here in the USA. After 1 year that group in India were replaced by people in Poland...
The new management for 3 levels high are from India living here in the USA. We became expendable to them.
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