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This just looks like a way for employers to track employees with no benefit to said employees. No one needs to know when I’m on a break at home / taking a shit.

• mahad759 6y ago
  Well that's one way to look at it, maybe a lot of people who share your view as well but there most certainly are people who want to take shit in peace XD. They don't want those annoying calls from their team members when they are busy. We see it as giving back control the employee about his schedule. He tells everyone that he's not available to work rn (adding comment is optional so he can skip on the specifics of the break)
  • aronpye 6y ago
    I'm not against status updates, it's the tracking and clocking in and out like a 1920's factory worker inside my own home that I find objectionable. Even in an office proper, this kind of tracking is a fundamental breach of trust and causes a serious imbalance of power. I also find framing this kind of thing as somehow benefiting an employee to be so duplicitous I think it is malicious.
    • mahad759 6y ago
      I feel like "tracking" has a very bad connotation here at hn. As an associate product manager working remotely I would want to know if a certain software engineer has checked in for the day so that I can ask him for an update. I personally would not want to disturb him when he's off the clock. Again, its not about not trusting employees but creating a sense of transparency and closeness in a team