[HN Gopher] Bosses turn to 'tattleware' to keep tabs on employee...
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       Bosses turn to 'tattleware' to keep tabs on employees working from
       home
        
       Author : cyb_
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2021-09-05 15:41 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.theguardian.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.theguardian.com)
        
       | robbywashere_ wrote:
       | As work has been accelerated since the pandemic to be much more
       | remote; affecting nearly every salary range, employee
       | surveillance will be a new form of power and control the ruling
       | class will have over the working class. Consequently this power
       | imbalance will lead to lesser ideal working conditions for the
       | working class like longer hours and lower wages.
        
       | ilaksh wrote:
       | Great article. I did stop reading when I got to the part about
       | how there wasn't a lot of pushback.
       | 
       | Most employees are dependant upon that job to maintain their
       | income. And losing that income creates a big problem.
       | 
       | So there is a strong incentive to accept most things the employer
       | wants to avoid being fired. Including spyware or tattleware or
       | whatever.
       | 
       | Employees know that even though they hate being spied on, raising
       | it as a serious issue risks losing their job. Or, they have heard
       | other employees try and fail to get anywhere against a mandatory
       | policy.
       | 
       | So if it seems to someone like there isn't a lot of pushback,
       | that is a misleading statistic they have gathered.
        
         | hypothesis wrote:
         | Somewhere at the end they even added a "contrarian" opinion
         | which basically said that people like being surveilled and more
         | productive when under surveillance...
         | 
         | *head-desk*
        
       | literallyaduck wrote:
       | Voyeur laws could mean lots of these bosses could be looking at
       | time. The camera consent might apply to the employee but if they
       | think it is off and others are filmed including children, it is a
       | huge crime.
        
       | fmakunbound wrote:
       | I would like to just send a big, heart-felt "Fuck you" to anyone
       | out there involved in the construction of such software.
        
         | mavelikara wrote:
         | Go for it: https://analogrepublic.com/about
        
         | sli wrote:
         | And yet the comment here about the most effective way to combat
         | this is flagged and dead. HN's crowd seems to be largely fine
         | with all of this.
        
       | truantbuick wrote:
       | I'm getting the impression that the new job I'm starting very
       | soon uses something like this.
       | 
       | Any suggestions on most convenient way to cover up camera when
       | not using it? I've looked at a few "webcam camera slide" products
       | around, but I'm hearing a lot of reports of them cracking the
       | screen of recent Macbook Pros.
        
         | tuatoru wrote:
         | post-it note, bookmark size.
        
       | eigengrau5150 wrote:
       | Today is always a good day for a general strike. Your job needs
       | you more than you need your job. You are the means of production,
       | so reclaim yourself.
        
       | Railsify wrote:
       | - Time Doctor, Teramind, and Hubstaff - which, together with
       | ActivTrak, make up the bulk of the market
       | 
       | How do I find out if any of these programs are run on my pc?
        
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