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Isn't this just a more advanced form of punch clock? We can quibble about the specifics, but employers tracking their employees time is not a new practice. No
by ta8645 4y ago
Isn't this just a more advanced form of punch clock? We can quibble about the specifics, but employers tracking their employees time is not a new practice.
Not proud of this fact, but my father got caught punching in the time clock at the Heinz ketchup factory, and then going back home to sleep a few times every week. They were faster to catch him because of the clock.
- Apocryphon 4y agoTake that, John Kerry
- bitL 4y agoImagine punching clock every 10 minutes including a small report about what you did in those 10 minutes.
- kelnos 4y agoWho is saying that anyone should be required to do that, though? Some professions require employees to track time in smaller increments than 10 minutes (IIRC most lawyers at firms in the US bill in six-minute increments), but that's for the purpose of billing that time to the correct client, not as a way of micromanaging the employee.
- doubled112 4y agoAt one job I had, certain departments billed by minute. Your ticket updates were expected to be to the exact minute, and there was a counter at the top to tell you how close you were to your 8 hours. Many starting out would end up needing 10-12h to make that 8.
- bitL 4y agoHow many people ended up in an asylum after working there?
- tsuujin 4y agoI don’t think this is analogous to a punch clock. The clock just says when you’re in the building, where the kind of software they’re using here is more like just having someone stand at your desk and ask you what you’re doing every couple of minutes. There’s a mental cost to being tracked so rigidly, and the burnout it leads to may be -why- hours get logged fraudulently.