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How is this any different to clocking in manually at your workplace? A lot of companies ask their employees to clock in and out at a terminal when they enter th

How is this any different to clocking in manually at your workplace? A lot of companies ask their employees to clock in and out at a terminal when they enter the office. For roster adherence and for payroll. The article clearly states it only starts tracking when the employee enters a specific geo-fence. In a Covid world with remote collaboration between teams something like this sounds perfectly reasonable. How else would a company know for certain that the employee who was supposed to clean a client premise actually went there?

colechristensen 6y ago
Yeah a time clock isn’t a spy in your pocket 24/7. If you aren’t paying for a separate work phone you can straight up fuck off with any requests for things i do with my phone, especially for the purposes of tracking my location.
feanaro 6y ago
Through trust and through the client complaining that no one showed up? In other words, how did the world ever work before smartphones?
christophilus 6y ago
Manually clocking in at your workplace has no way of accidentally leaking your contacts list or tracking where you were last night or just taking up space on your phone that you own. You want me to install crap ware on my personal property? Not a chance. You give me a phone, and I’m marginally more fine with it.
simlan 6y ago
Do you take the GPS enabled terminal from work home ? Do you have the terminal with you at night and on the weekends?
alexf95 6y ago
> How else would a company know for certain that the employee who was supposed to clean a client premise actually went there? Well this is the whole point. You have to trust your employees to some degree with this. Also you would totally notice someone not doing what they are supposed to do at some point, simply because their work would pile up otherwise. You can also have daily/weekly meetings to check on their progress to make sure they are doing their work.

colechristensen 6y ago

Yeah a time clock isn’t a spy in your pocket 24/7. If you aren’t paying for a separate work phone you can straight up fuck off with any requests for things i do with my phone, especially for the purposes of tracking my location.

feanaro 6y ago

Through trust and through the client complaining that no one showed up? In other words, how did the world ever work before smartphones?

christophilus 6y ago

Manually clocking in at your workplace has no way of accidentally leaking your contacts list or tracking where you were last night or just taking up space on your phone that you own. You want me to install crap ware on my personal property? Not a chance. You give me a phone, and I’m marginally more fine with it.

simlan 6y ago

Do you take the GPS enabled terminal from work home ? Do you have the terminal with you at night and on the weekends?

alexf95 6y ago

> How else would a company know for certain that the employee who was supposed to clean a client premise actually went there? Well this is the whole point. You have to trust your employees to some degree with this. Also you would totally notice someone not doing what they are supposed to do at some point, simply because their work would pile up otherwise. You can also have daily/weekly meetings to check on their progress to make sure they are doing their work.