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My company started implementing cameras for people working from home
- Thread starter eKongDiddy
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One and done here. If productivity is down the answer shouldn't be to micromanage through a webcam. Maybe ask employees questions to gauge what motivates them to be productive. Why is this such a hard thing to understand and get in front of.
I hope they appreciate Weinerville style puppet bodies because that's what they're seeing.
Also the managers need to get their asses back to work and stop staring at livestreams.
Also the managers need to get their asses back to work and stop staring at livestreams.
When middle management and HR people realize how fucking useless they are and how obvious it becomes to others when WFH is common
They gather like a bunch of hungry sniveling rats and scheme up little ways to make WFH seem like it destroys companies and production rates
They gather like a bunch of hungry sniveling rats and scheme up little ways to make WFH seem like it destroys companies and production rates
I'd say that's generous, when it should just be.......expected.
When I started WFH, I asked if I could expense printer paper. That's it. That's all I wanted to do.
My Manager's Response: No, you're saving money not driving into work.
I am glad to see that journalists have started covering some of these practices. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/09/24/remote-work-from-home-surveillance/
Yeeeeep. Pretty much this. What a stupid thing to do. That will surely help employee motivation, retention, and productivity!
I'd be out the door yesterday. My job requires absolute confidentiality and if I ever got any hint that my employer was trying to pull some shit like that, not only would I walk out on the spot, I'd report them to the state Department of Human Services. Of course, I realize that my work is more sensitive in this regard than many other fields, but it seems like an unacceptable invasion of privacy regardless.
Absolutely not. I would tell them that my notice would be in their inbox the very moment one of those cameras arrived at my home, and would certainly not plug it in for the remainder of my time there.
And then your 3 year old runs by naked saying it doesn't want to wipe or some other stupid thing.
My company is German and they aren't even allowed to monitor productivity down to an individual level using the tools already present in the software they use. The reports are turned off.
It would be really funny to see what would happen if this was proposed to the works council.
It would be really funny to see what would happen if this was proposed to the works council.
There's talk of this at my company but they already try and institute ridiculous demands like everyone in the house must not be streaming any video or games during my shift and with a 13 year old and a retired Elderly guy with a Netflix addiction that's lol. They also try and force cameras on during meetings but you're not paying rent so you don't need to see my wife sleeping behind me. I will leave.
The moment that policy was even entertained, I'd be out the door in a heartbeat. Management is absolutely worthless if this is seen as the way they need to spend their time and its disrespectful to every single employee they throw a camera on.
The ironic thing is, anyone with any kind of other job prospects at all would almost immediately quit, so you'd lose most of your "good" workforce. The ones that are left are either going to be the ones that actually need to be monitored (what are you going to do, fire them? everyone else quit) or the few rookies who feel like this is the normal course of doing business and they're taking one for the company, who is their family.
Yep. I would go one further and argue that the obsession with performance statistics and data will be the end of us all. The number of times I have had to explain to clients that the best employees work in fits and starts is absurd. We are not machines. I don't have a magical answer to get them working at full capacity continuously for 10+ hours a day, for months on end, without burning out or quitting.
