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Because this is the persons own device, it's the employer who failed to provide software that works properly with those devices. To be fair, the firing offense
by mrweasel 3y ago
Because this is the persons own device, it's the employer who failed to provide software that works properly with those devices.
To be fair, the firing offense technically isn't refusing to use Windows, but failure to do time tracking I suspect. Not really sure what the screenshot feature is suppose to do though.
It really depends on why this person isn't using company issued hardware. I've used my own laptop on jobs before, but that was to prove that Windows was slowing us down, once that was established my boss just bought macs.
There's also the option that the company could issue cheap laptops for the stuff that require Windows or other specific software and just let people use their own hardware for everything else.
- WolfeReader 3y ago"Not really sure what the screenshot feature is suppose to do though." It's surveillance. In an ideal world, your job performance would be measured by some combination of the amount of stories completed, balanced with the difficulty of the stories and the quality of the code delivered too. Not only would you avoid having to look over your employees' screens, you wouldn't even need to track time at all. In the real world, these decisions are made by "managers" who think that things like hours, lines of code, surveillance, and using "approved software" are all good ways to measure the quality of the resulting product. They're the same ones pushing for return-to-office culture. They'll reward a dev who introduces bugs and then "burns the midnight oil" staying late to fix it, over the dev who writes clean code that doesn't crash in the first place.
- JohnFen 3y agoYes, the only proper way of determining if someone is producing as expected is to look at what they're producing. It's how I've always run my businesses, and it has never steered me wrong.