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I've heard a few stories about how Japanese companies are using these. There's one company which deployed a webcam app on their employees laptop to "track atten
by tjpnz 6y ago
I've heard a few stories about how Japanese companies are using these. There's one company which deployed a webcam app on their employees laptop to "track attentiveness" and dock pay for periods of time where they take their eyes off the screen. Another company is asking employees to wear a device (with camera and sensors) around their necks in order to track their overall "happiness". Stuff right out of 1984.
The fact there are people in my profession working on such things troubles me.
- ddrt 6y agoHmm when I was visiting Japan they had a serious problem with work exhaustion related suicides. The workload and pressure to perform at higher and higher levels was too much so they ended it. That was just a few years ago. So, to hear that there is a new level of control for this already judgemental and “honor” based society is just appalling.
- koheripbal 6y agoWe just use it to make sure people are working. We discovered one person who, while "working from home" logged in at 9am, wrote one email, then again at 5pm, and did nothing in between. We suspected as much, but the surveillance software allowed us to provide the evidence for that person's dismissal.
- tjpnz 6y agoCouldn't you also solve this through better management? If someone isn't hitting their targets I don't think you need that kind of evidence to begin the dismissal process.