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When some cubicle-farm jobs go remote, they go remote with the employer requiring you to run surveillance software (webcam observing you, tracking of continual
by Mediterraneo10 5y ago
When some cubicle-farm jobs go remote, they go remote with the employer requiring you to run surveillance software (webcam observing you, tracking of continual mouse and keyboard activity) to ensure that you are present at your computer all working hours, except authorized breaks. So, even when liberated from the office those workers don’t get all the freedoms that you might hope for.
- carlmr 5y agoLuckily this is highly illegal in the developed world.
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoIs it? Platforms like Upwork advertise this software to businesses wanting to hire freelancers as a major advantage of choosing to go through them, and I hear that trucking companies in the US regularly install cameras within their trucks to watch the drivers at all times.
- deepserket 5y agouh... why? the job of a trucker is to go from A to B as far as i know, isn't gps enough? why would you need to install cameras?
- Mediterraneo10 5y agoVarious reasons. One is to check that the driver is not looking at his phone or watching videos while driving (because they have so much downtime, truckers often have a tablet or laptop to watch movies on), i.e. the same reason there are cameras watching the drivers of trains. Truckers occasionally try to bring their spouses along, which is against the company’s rules, or they make use of prostitutes on the road, and a camera lets the company ensure that no one is ever inside their truck but the driver.
- llampx 5y agoIn a world where Amazon blue-collar jobs exist, I highly doubt that it's >>illegal<<.
- Viliam1234 5y agoAs far as I know our company does not have such surveillance software. But we all use Microsoft Teams, which changes the color of your icon from green to yellow if you leave your computer for a minute (or stop using keyboard and mouse). So I guess the only difference is whether someone looks at the icons.
- cwdegidio 5y agoJust download a jiggler. Most of the icon color changing systems are just looking for some kind of user event. Turn it on when you step away and no one is the wiser. Didn’t answer a DM? You were in deep focus mode and didn’t see it, etc.
- Zababa 5y agoIf you have some control over your computer, you can easily create a small AutoIT script that runs every 30 seconds and move the mouse a bit.
- PurpleFoxy 5y agoI noticed that when running MS teams in a flatpak on wayland, it no longer has access to the mouse and keyboard input so it just shows me as online always.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoProbably illegal in Norway. And other civilized countries.