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My guess is that most people will happily (or not so happily) trade salary and job stability for surveillance. Modern corporations are basically authoritarian s
by maxxxxx 9y ago
My guess is that most people will happily (or not so happily) trade salary and job stability for surveillance. Modern corporations are basically authoritarian so the trend towards total surveillance will increase in my view.
- devoply 9y ago> job stability i doubt it. surveillance means less stability as there are more reasons to fire people.
- droidist2 9y agoOr maybe more reasons not to fire? If you know someone's whole life maybe you'll be more understanding. Or is that too optimistic?
- sigkrieger 9y agoThis assumes that somebody actually cares, if they do, they would know that already by asking.
- icebraining 9y agoThat assumes they can trust the answer.
- sigkrieger 9y agoThis heavily depends on the environment and the culture of a company | department. In my experience, managers that actually do care about their employees tend to have much better results than the opposite.
- PakG1 9y agoUnderstanding someone's whole life and making a corresponding graceful/merciful decision is at the discretion of the manager. In general, corporate incentives will guide managers towards firing if there is not overwhelming evidence that the person actually usually is or can be an above-average performer. Corporations are not set up to act like charities. The rare manager that can be compassionate in the face of his corporate incentives is at risk of himself being fired if he becomes too charitable too much.
- jrs95 9y agoWhat it does likely mean is that there will be a reason to fire everyone. So management can use whatever excuse they'd like to get rid of someone just because of office politics. It's a bit harder now since they generally have to do bogus performance reviews etc.
- mistersquid 9y agoSuch understanding would likely extend to an individual's privacy, so people and institutions that subvert privacy (even with the consent of the surveilled) are unlikely to be induced to empathy by a profusion of data.
- maxxxxx 9y agoI guess I meant immediate job stability. If you reject surveillance at your current job you will have probably have to look for another. This is pretty scary for a lot of people.
- JustSomeNobody 9y agoOf course they will. They're already doing it to get access to Facebook, etc, so they just think that's the way the world works now.