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Now that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, I wouldn't trust them one bit to keep your activity there away from your employer. It would be really easy to correlate your s

Now that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, I wouldn't trust them one bit to keep your activity there away from your employer. It would be really easy to correlate your sentiment analysis on Teams/email against your LI messaging traffic.

Silhouette 3y ago
Fortunately in at least some parts of the world providing personal data based on use of LinkedIn to a third party like an employer who happened to use other Microsoft products would clearly violate legal data protection rules and potentially land both Microsoft and the employer with expensive penalties. It's not the same situation as an employer providing an IT facility to their own employees so they can do their jobs but then having morally and perhaps legally questionable abilities to perform covert surveillance of how the employees use that facility.
- wizzwizz4 3y ago
  > and potentially land both Microsoft and the employer with expensive penalties. Yeah, but that's not going to happen for another few quarters, and it'll come out of some other department's budget.
maxerickson 3y ago
To what end? Like I'm not saying that there won't be people doing it, I just don't understand why a company that valued it's employees would be doing sentiment analysis on LinkedIn vs the many other ways they could approach the relationship. Is the idea that a workforce comprised of people that obey or work around the stupid unwritten rules is going to be more effective?
- joezydeco 3y ago
  I see it as an upsell. "Hey HR, do you want an early peek as to which of your employees are about to quit?"
TheRealDunkirk 3y ago
Now that there's a tick box in Outlook to tie your surveilled corporate account to your real-life personal account on LinkedIn -- combined with the fact that we know that Microsoft aggregates our "productivity" data to allow companies to compare their scores -- do people really think that Microsoft ISN'T selling a person's "productivity" scores from their previous and current employers to potential recruiters?
- lumost 3y ago
  Is this going to turn into a game where the individual who uses Microsoft products the most is considered the most productive? These scores do have some meaning, after all, there are folks who are giving the job their all and folks who are phoning it in. These people aren't guaranteed to be the same in 6 months. The hard worker may burnout, and the person taking it easy might have life circumstances change. The person working hard may be so successful they leave anyway. We generally dislike paying people more than a 2x difference within the same bracket which means once you hit the top of the terminal level, there is limited incentive to work hard. Folks are either working for the next gig, or they are learning to extract more life satisfaction from their employers.

Silhouette 3y ago

Fortunately in at least some parts of the world providing personal data based on use of LinkedIn to a third party like an employer who happened to use other Microsoft products would clearly violate legal data protection rules and potentially land both Microsoft and the employer with expensive penalties. It's not the same situation as an employer providing an IT facility to their own employees so they can do their jobs but then having morally and perhaps legally questionable abilities to perform covert surveillance of how the employees use that facility.

wizzwizz4 3y ago
> and potentially land both Microsoft and the employer with expensive penalties. Yeah, but that's not going to happen for another few quarters, and it'll come out of some other department's budget.

maxerickson 3y ago

To what end? Like I'm not saying that there won't be people doing it, I just don't understand why a company that valued it's employees would be doing sentiment analysis on LinkedIn vs the many other ways they could approach the relationship. Is the idea that a workforce comprised of people that obey or work around the stupid unwritten rules is going to be more effective?

joezydeco 3y ago
I see it as an upsell. "Hey HR, do you want an early peek as to which of your employees are about to quit?"

TheRealDunkirk 3y ago

Now that there's a tick box in Outlook to tie your surveilled corporate account to your real-life personal account on LinkedIn -- combined with the fact that we know that Microsoft aggregates our "productivity" data to allow companies to compare their scores -- do people really think that Microsoft ISN'T selling a person's "productivity" scores from their previous and current employers to potential recruiters?

lumost 3y ago
Is this going to turn into a game where the individual who uses Microsoft products the most is considered the most productive? These scores do have some meaning, after all, there are folks who are giving the job their all and folks who are phoning it in. These people aren't guaranteed to be the same in 6 months. The hard worker may burnout, and the person taking it easy might have life circumstances change. The person working hard may be so successful they leave anyway. We generally dislike paying people more than a 2x difference within the same bracket which means once you hit the top of the terminal level, there is limited incentive to work hard. Folks are either working for the next gig, or they are learning to extract more life satisfaction from their employers.