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from the if-they-track-your-every-move,-it's-best-to-hold-still dept.
How can an employer make sure its remote workers aren’t slacking off on the job? In the case of talent management company Crossover, the answer is to take photos of them every 10 minutes through their webcam.
The pictures are taken by Crossover’s productivity tool, WorkSmart, and combined with screenshots of their workstations along with other data including app use and keystrokes to come up with a “focus score” and an “intensity score” that can be used to assess the value of freelancers.
Today’s workplace surveillance software is a digital panopticon that began with email and phone monitoring but now includes keeping track of web-browsing patterns, text messages, screenshots, keystrokes, social media posts, private messaging apps like WhatsApp and even face-to-face interactions with co-workers.
Good luck with that, Big Brother. My webcam's covered by duct tape.
(Score: 1) by petecox on Tuesday November 07 2017, @10:50AM (2 children)
Can't you just try the trick from Speed, where Dennis Hopper is fooled for a time by looping the same video tape?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Nerdfest on Tuesday November 07 2017, @11:54AM
That'd be fine, but how many of us actually work for Dennis Hopper?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 07 2017, @06:19PM
Undoubtedly this is the route slackers will take. Record some typical actions, then have a program repeat them in pseudo random order. Better yet, let's move away from this death by bean counters.
Bean counting is important, but only up to a point. After that the bean counting produces negative returns that are difficult to quantify for bean counting brains.